Photo Credit: Society & Diplomatic Review Aranyani had its first big society blast-off in the Big Apple- NYC- with their high ticket and magnificent Italian leather handbags. Some were big enough to put the days’ shopping in- others, small enough to just put your lipstick, money, and folding eyeglasses into. As India's first luxury handbag brand, Aranyani made a brief but unforgettable stopover at New York enroute London where the first Aranyani store will be launched at Mayf

By: Claus Mueller, Senior Editor It took a long time before the Western powers and Japan engaged in a critical examination of their colonial pasts and the crimes they committed in the occupied regions. France, which colonized Algeria from 1830 to 1962, is a case in point. The best known documentation is the 1966 feature Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo which illustrates the escalating violence and atrocities committed by French armed forces against civilians and the resp

By: Neshan Naltchayan PC: Neshan Naltchayan Ambassador Ivonne A-Baki hosted a reception at the Embassy of Ecuador in Washington D.C. on March 11th, 2022 in honor of the Charles Darwin Foundation. Hans Van Poelvoorde, President and Board member of the Charles Darwin Foundation and Rakan Zahawi, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the foundation, spoke on the efforts of Ecuador as leading the way for conservation in the world. Gabriela Sommerfeld, board member of

By: Claus Mueller, Senior Editor Patrick Morell presents a superbly photographed one hour documentation of the Teyyam rituals. These rituals have been performed for thousands of years, in hundreds of locations, in India’s Northern Kerala. Through Teyyam rituals, devotees’ bond with their gods, goddesses, heroes, and ancestors. Teyyam rituals have re-established a direct personalized relationship between the believers and their gods, a connection disrupted by Western organiz

By: Claus Mueller, Senior Editor Filmed in Algeria by the US born American documentary filmmaker James Blue under the cover of making a production about the wine industry, and finished in 1962, the year Algeria became independent, this narrative feature is the only French production shot there during the Algerian War. The Olive Trees of Justice received the first Critics Prize Cannes award for a US film maker. The Olive Trees of Justice (OTJ) is the only feature James Blue ma

PC: Tanenbaum; Tanenbaum CEO, Rev. Mark Fowler with Peacemaker in Action Dr. Ephraim Isaac, George Negroponte, Tanenbaum Founder and President, Dr. Georgette Bennett, and Tanenbaum Board Chair, Justin Foa Tanenbaum kicked off their 30th Anniversary year with a spectacular gathering at the Rubin Museum of Art on February 28th. Art enthusiasts joined distinguished guests and renowned artists for Divinely Inspired: Celebrating our Differences through Art. The auction featured wo