It gave me great pleasure to join five other South Asian writers: Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran Desai, Suketu Mehta and Akhil Sharma to put on a benefit reading for Obama on October 4. The event was organized by author Meera Nair, and emceed by film maker Mira Nair. Suketu had a great party at his house afterwards. We ended up raising $56,000 for Obama! Here's more on it on Sepia Mutiny.

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emm.. thanks ))
Posted by FenOppome | April 10, 2009 5:44 AM
Posted on April 10, 2009 05:44