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IAAC SOIREE SERIES: SUMMER-FALL 2012 
 
	
Join us at beautiful Manhattan homes for serendipitious cocktails,
scrumptious suppers, delicious conversations and a dip into the glorious
lives and talent of fascinating featured guests! Intimate, exclusive
evenings - maxiumum 30 people at each soiree. 
 
These soirees are meant for people with an insatiable thirst for
excitement, for the arts,for beauty, for life!! 
 
Your contribution to the Soiree is tax-deductible to the fullest extent
allowable by law and your support of the IAAC is extremely appreciated! 
 	 
Hosts: (Addresses will be provided to the registered guests.)
Dinyar & Aashish Devitre, Central Park West. 
Anita Trehan, Wall Street Area. 
Natvar & Janet Bhavsar, Soho. 
Robin & Rashmi Sen, Gramercy Park. 
Sanyu & Sudhir Desai, Union Square. 
  	 
Special Featured Guests: 
Featured Guests will perform/read/demonstrate their talent and mingle
with Soiree guests. 
Suketu Mehta - author. 
Natvar Bhavsar - artist. 
Samrat Chakrabarti - playwright-composer. 
Preeti Vasudevan - dancer-choreographer 
Sachal Vasandani - Jazz vocalist 

Soiree itinerary: 7-10 pm 
7-8 pm cocktails 
8-8:30 pm featured guest 
8:30 -10 pm scrumptious supper & delicious conversation 

Dinner: especially prepared for each soiree by Benaras restaurant.

Cocktails: Beer courtesy Kingfisher; Wine courtesy Good Earth Winery;
Whiskey, Vodka, Rum courtesy United Breweries.

Dates: 
August 29 Soiree Series # 1 Music: Jazz vocalist Sachal Vasandani
 accompanied by a
guitar and bass will entertain us at Robin & Rashmi Sen s home in the
Gramercy Park area. 
September 13 Soiree Series # 2 Literature: A sneak peak Reading of his
new book on New York with Author Suketu Mehta
  will be presented at
Anita Trehan s home in the Wall Street area. 
October 9 Soiree Series # 3 Art: A studio tour and explanation of the
artistic process by Artist Natvar Bhavsar
  at Natvar Bhavsar's
home in Soho*.
October 24 Soiree Series # 4 Theatre: A barebones performance of the
Musical Bumbug by Playwright-Composer Samrat Chakrabarti and Sanjiv
Jahveri   will be
performed at Aashish & Dinyar Devitre s home on Central Park South.
November 7 Soiree # 5 DANCE: Dancer Preeti Vasudevan
  performs at Sanyu &
Sudhir Desai s home in Union Square.
  
	
Limited reservations for each home. RSVP's to events.iaac@gmail.com
  for each soiree must be accompanied by
payment: $250 per person ($225 tax-deductible) Members $225 ($200
tax-deductible). Please write a cheque to 

Indo-American Arts Council, 517 E 87th Street, Suite 1B, New York, NY
10128. 
Or pay via Paypal  . 

For information please visit www.iaac.us or call 212 594 3685. 	
	
	
SOIREE SERIES # 2 LITERATURE: 
 
with
  	
AUTHOR SUKETU MEHTA	 
 	 
A sneak peak Reading of his new book on New York City.	 
 	 
7-10 pm. Thursday September 13, 2012
Anita Trehan's home, NYC. 	
 	 
Imbibe your favourite cocktails, let your taste buds awake with
mouth-watering delicacies and converse with fascinating individuals in
Anita Trehan's beautiful home!	 
 	 
Author Suketu Mehta takes you on a journey into the pulse of New York
city as he recounts and reads from his latest book on our favourite
city. Talk to him about "Maximum City", about his screenplays, about his
new venture and about his life. Get your books signed, click your
cameras for memories, exchange stories and indulge in being a New
Yorker!!  	
 	 
Limited reservations for this exclusive soiree. Maximum 30 people. 	
RSVP's to events.iaac@gmail.com must be accompanied by payment: $250 per
person ($225 tax-deductible). IAAC Members $225 ($200 tax-deductible). 	
Please write a cheque to 
Indo-American Arts Council, 
517 E 87th Street, Suite 1B, 
New York, NY 10128.
 Or 
pay via Paypal  . 
(contributions include cocktails, dinner and the featured guest) 	
 	 
Your host's address will be emailed to you with an acknowledgement of
your reservation.	 
 	 
Suketu Mehta	 
SuketuMehta  Suketu Mehta
is the New York-based author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,
which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a
finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4
Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the
Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York

Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta's work has
been published in the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic,
Granta, Harpers Magazine, Time, and Condé Nast Traveler, and has been
featured on NPR's Fresh Air . Mehta is Associate Professor of Journalism
at New York University. He is currently working on a nonfiction book
about immigrants in contemporary New York, for which he was awarded a
2007 Guggenheim fellowship. He has also written an original screenplay
for The Goddess, a Merchant-Ivory film starring Tina Turner, and Mission
Kashmir , a Bollywood movie.Mehta was born in Calcutta and raised in
Bombay and New York. He is a graduate of New York University and the
Iowa Writers Workshop. 	
	
 	 
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