Sunday Times media correspondent Dipesh Gadher has been appointed deputy news editor at the weekly paper, it was reported this week.

The 33 year-old journalist, who started his journalist career at Asian paper Eastern Eye, has been with the paper for 10 years.
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The Asian Woman magazine awards took place last week at the Whitehall Palace Banqueting House in central London.

Actress Manjinder Virk with writer Neil Biswas

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Former model and journalist Anjana Gosai has published a new beauty book aimed at South Asian women.

Currently beauty editor at Asian magazine, Ms Gosai’s book - ‘The Ultimate Guide To Beauty’ - is billed as “a one-of-a-kind dressing table guide containing everything a girl needs to look and feel her best”.
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A Bollywood film starring Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan is in contention for a Bafta award.

The period epic Jodhaa Akbar is competing in the Best Foreign Film Category.

It is directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, whose previous film Lagaan was nominated for an Oscar in 2001 as Best Foreign Language Film.
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by Amardeep Sohi
Freelance Arts Journalist

Two Pakistani girls living in a women’s refuge in a Northern town, shackled by the past and fighting for their freedom is the setting for the latest production by Tamasha, the theatre company who first introduced us to the much celebrated East is East.

Sweet Cider follows Nosheen and Tazeem’s journey as they struggle to make sense of their fractured and troubled lives, anchored only by their friendship.

Directed by Kristine Landon-Smith at the acclaimed Arcola theatre, the play lives up to Tamasha’s reputation for exhibiting fresh new talent with an up and coming playwright and cast.
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Digital station BBC Asian Network announced yesterday that its drivetime presenter Adil Ray was taking over the reins of the Breakfast show (weekdays 6-9am) from the New Year.

Current occupier Jas Rao will swap roles with him and present the Drivetime show in a new weekday timeslot of 3pm - 6pm.

Nasreen Akhtar, a 34 year writer was recently longlisted for an award for her self-published book, Catch a Fish from the Sea (Using the Internet). It is a memoir about trying to find a partner on the web and traces the remarkable journey of a hopeful soul seeking something that every human being craves: to love and be loved.

How did the idea for the book come about?

My post graduate study was called ‘Eenie, meenie, minie, mo…Catch a Fish from the Sea (Using the Internet)’. Then one day purely by chance, I looked at it from a non-academic angle and saw that is was amusing at the same time and thought that if it was a book, it would be quite entertaining.

During the years that followed, many people told me that I should write a book but I did not take this idea seriously. Then someone very important came into my life and told me that he wanted me to do something with my writing as he believed that I could create something fantastic.

By that time, even though I had set up my publishing company, I abandoned the idea due to severe writer’s block. But when he shared his thoughts with me, how could I not honour his request? And so Catch a Fish from the Sea (Using the Internet) as the world knows it now, came to be in its full glory.
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The radio industry teamed up with media and education unions, students and lecturers at 50 universities and colleges round the country in a campaign to interest more ethnic minority students in radio.

The ‘Represent!’ campaign, launched during university Freshers Week, was in response to under-representation of ethnic minorities in student radio - a key entry point into the industry.
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The hotly anticipated film Slumdog Millionaire opened in North America this weekend to financial success.

The film sees British actor Dev Patel (from Channel 4’s Skins) play Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”
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Following on from their acclaimed album ‘Hanging Around’, music band Trickbaby are releasing their follow-up album ‘Chor Bazaar’ on Chachaman Records.

From the album comes the first single Nine Parts next month, inspired by a west end shopping trip when lead singer Saira Hussain became fascinated by the rolex watches and gold jewellery peering out from the Muslim ladies’ Yashmaks.

It stars Bollywood superstar Abhishek Bachchan as Saira’s love interest and Priyanka Chopra as her love rival. See the music video:
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Radio presenter Veena V won the ‘Best Radio Presenter’ at Channel 4’s 4Talent Awards, being the youngest nominee and only female in her category.

The 4Talent Awards aim to recognise UK’s young creative talent and are part of Channel 4’s drive to act as talent spotters for the people who provide Channel 4, E4, More4, Film4, and channel4.com with programming..
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Hello readers!
After a hiatus for just over 6 weeks, as announced on our weekly newsletter, AIM magazine is back again. So please come up regularly to be updated with all the news. The newsletter will go out again from later this week.

regards
editor, Sunny Hundal