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	New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
		Meera Nair is a Brooklyn-based writer who was born and raised in India.
		For this article, Nair describes the memory of learning to ride a bike in India with the help of a local farm hand, who she is currently in the process of developing into Chaami, a character in her upcoming novel that she plans to complete this summer.
		Nair is a 2002 NYFA Artists’ Fellowship recipient in Fiction.
	www.nyfa.org /level3.asp?id=306&fid=6&sid=17 (1057 words)

	The Yale Review of Books
		Perhaps Nair's focus on relationships between men and women, in which the personal and the political are always so inextricably intertwined, combined with awareness of tragic conflicts on a larger scale, helped her develop her subtle way of combining large-scale political events and conflicts with small personal interactions.
		Nair is consistently successful in using outside events to heighten and complicate the effects of her character's actions and interactions.
		Nair's stories often sound a little like they were written for a class rather than out of sudden inspiration, and some critics, citing her recently acquired M.F.A., have criticized her stories for sounding too "workshopped" and careful; I agree with this observation.
	www.yalereviewofbooks.com /archive/summer02/review05.shtml.htm (1073 words)

	Artists Index - Meera N. Nair (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Even from her childhood days Meera had an innate desire to watch closely pictures and drawings whenever she happened to visit her friend's house or in magazines/newspapers.
		Meera, born and brought up in Chennai, is basically a commerce student and is doing her MA (Public Admn) through correspondence and has been a full time employee in a reputed concern for the past five years.
		Meera says that she has been successful in her drawings due to the encouragement and support given by her mother, Mrs.P.Sarojini, who felt that Meera's dream of becoming an artist by profession would come true soon.
	www.chennaionline.com /artscene/artists/m/meera.asp (544 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Author Spotlight: Meera Nair
		Meera Nair was born and raised in India and came to the United States in 1997 to study creative writing.
		Nair lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
		In ten stories that read like parables, Meera Nair depicts contemporary Indian life with fierce precision and an irresistible blend of humor, wit, and pathos, firmly establishing herself as a striking new voice in Indian fiction.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=21777 (128 words)

	Voice Literary Supplement: Young, Gifted, and Workshopped
		Certainly, Meera Nair, Steve Almond, and Raul Correa cover varied terrain in their debuts.
		And while there is much to admire in their books, they share an underlying contrivance, a received and overly strict notion of what constitutes a story and how best to tell it.
		Meera Nair came to the U.S. from India in 1997 and got an M.F.A. from NYU.
	www.villagevoice.com /vls/177/antrim.shtml (1921 words)

	Hirsh Sawhney
		Meera Nair’s debut collection Video (Random House 2003) is set in modern-day India, Bangladesh and the United States.
		Nair, who was recently awarded the 2003 Asian American Literary Prize, lives in Fort Greene, where she is currently at work on a novel that takes place in the Indian state of Kerala in 1957.
		Nair: I don’t like a lot of Indian writers who exploit India in horrible ways— who make it very exotic, who talk about her long fl hair, her long lashed eyes, and the lake that was her navel.
	www.hirshsawhney.com /meerarail.html (1659 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: Stories: Books: Meera Nair
		Nair touched upon many different aspects of modern life in India, but covered lovely fantasies as well.
		Nair explores the emotions that arise from the challenges confronting those caught in the midst of a changing and challenged Indian culture.
		Nair writes about family violence, a sculptor's work of breathtaking beauty, the humorous preparations for the visit of President Clinton to a small village, the fear of a murderer close-at-hand.
	www.amazon.ca /Video-Stories-Meera-Nair/dp/038572103X (984 words)

	The Hindu : Meera Nair wins literary award
		The Indian origin author, Meera Nair, has been selected for the 2003 Asian American Literary Awards for her book "Video: Stories", which narrates the immigrant experience.
		Nair's work was chosen from over 60 books of Asian American writers by a national panel of writers and literary critics.
		Nair's book was chosen as one of the best books of 2002 by the Washington Post and was a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book.
	www.hindu.com /2003/09/24/stories/2003092406151200.htm (152 words)

	DesiJournal.com - Video: Stories by Meera Nair
		A few weekends ago, I read one of Meera Nair’s short stories—"A Show of Faith", in the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
		And Nair’s Times story, while not outstanding, was crisp and well-told.
		One of the many reasons that makes Nair’s book worth reading, is her wonderful play with words.
	www.desijournal.com /book.asp?articleid=1 (493 words)

	Meera Nair: $$ Compare Prices at 110 Bookstores Worldwide for Best Deal! Cheap, New & Used Books
		Although 9 of the 10 stories in this debut collection are set in the author's native India, it is Meera Nair's great achievement that all the characters in Video are as recognizable as next-door neighbors.
		From the hilariously impatient villagers in Bangladesh waiting for a visit from Bill Clinton in "A Warm Welcome to the President, Insh'Allah!" to the nasally gifted computer programmer who hails from Mangalore in "The Curry Leaf Tree," we feel we know these people.
		If you are in a hurry to get a book or textbook for your class, you would better choose buying new books for prompt shipping.
	www.alldiscountbooks.net /SearchBook/defaultBrowse-tg/i/0375421114/Meera_TTP_a_S15/Meera_Nair: (644 words)

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	BookCloseouts.com - The Bestseller in Bargain Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In her debut collection, Meera Nair depicts contemporary Indian life with fierce precision and an irresistible blend of humor, wit, and pathos, firmly establishing herself as a striking new voice in Indian fiction.
		Meera Nair was born and raised in India and came to the United States in 1997 to study creative writing.
		Nair lives in Brooklyn with her husband and baby daughter.
	www.bookcloseouts.com /default.asp?R=9780375421112A (161 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> NRI -> Meera Nair wins 2003 Asian American Literary Award
		Nair's work was chosen from over 60 books of Asian American writers by a national panel of writers and literary critics.
		Nair was born and raised in India and came to US in 1997 to study creative writing.
		Nair lives in Brooklyn with her husband and a daughter.
	news.indiainfo.com /2003/09/23/23nri.html (349 words)

	coloredgirls \| cms
		When Meera Nair`s stories, all set in South Asia or the South Asian Diaspora, do capture a tale from its outline to a dreamscape, her work ranges from reveling in ironic humor to revealing the terrible.
		In Nair`s style ofironic twists, Rasheeda rejects her husband`s bed and retreats daily to the bathroom, where young wives wait on a long line to hear her dole out advice about how to deal with their husbands.
		Meera Nair`s Video attempts to capture for the eye`s mind, not the heroics of an icon on the big screen, but instead imperfect humans, and she succeeds, in the least, revealing their topography, and at the most, their very personas.
	www.coloredgirls.com /Reviews/review.html?article_id=29 (639 words)

	Poets & Writers - News - May 22, 2000
		Meera Nair of Brooklyn, New York, was given the award for her story "Video." The New York Times reported that on May 19, the sponsors of the $10,000 award took back the prize when they learned that the circulation of the Threepenny Review, in which Nair had been published, was larger than they assumed.
		Nair's story, had she been able to officially claim the prize, would have been published in the Boston Review.
		Nair and Bixby were among 12,000 entrants for the contest.
	www.pw.org /mag/news/News000522.htm (545 words)

	Uneasy marriage of tradition, modernity in India
		In these 10 stories, Nair maps a portrait of intimate Indian life: Couples struggling with their muted emotional and sexual lives; children undergoing indoctrination into the adult world; the clashes between modernity, usually in the guise of the Western world, and traditional Indian culture.
		Naseer, like many of Nair's characters, lives "in the confused bustle of communal living" with not only his own wife, Rasheeda, and their children, but his brothers and their wives and their children.
		Although Nair does not yet possess Lahiri's deep lyricism or her masterful Chekhov-like ability to achingly excavate a character's emotional depths, she still warrants praise and a prominent place among the many talented Indian writers working today.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/14/RV161136.DTL&type=printable (778 words)

	India Currents
		Nair leaves us with sympathy for all the players: the aging landlord whose world is changing around him, the young boy embarrassed by his grandfather’s old-fashioned attitudes, the workers who have lived there for decades but are dependent on benevolent charity for such basics as access to well water.
		In Nair’s hands, both her irritation and his obsession are a delight.
		Nair’s treatment of child molestation within an extended family in Summer is delicately written, but does not hold any unusual insights.
	www.indiacurrents.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=13a18b3c07f760992364b678b242c532 (756 words)

	Greater Boston Nepali Community
		Nair has a flair to seize minute details of a personal life and magnify it on a big screen both factually and figuratively.
		As I applaud Meera Nair's endeavor and leave the theater, I find myself among a big throng of audiences, almost all of them white, beaming and hailing it as a good return for their hard earned dollars.
		Meera Nair has once again established herself as a prominent filmmaker who this time has touched the pangs of insecurity in the older generations in their struggle to be at terms with the younger ones.
	www.gbnc.org /sajha/html/openThread.cfm?forum=2&ThreadID=44498 (1445 words)

	Interview: Mira Nair
		Indian, now Indian/American, writer Meera Nair is also, in addition to not being the Indian, now Indian/American, writer/director Mira Nair, not Meera Syal, an Indian-English writer (including for the screen) and actress.
		Meera Nair, like Mira Nair a native of India who came to the U.S. to attend university, has a new book in stores just this month, Video, already a bestseller, a collection of stories set mostly in her homeland.
		Nair's The Perez Family was heavily criticized by Hispanic commentators for its casting of non-Hispanic actors in the three main (Cuban) roles.
	www.countingdown.com /features?feature_id=716479 (2454 words)

	Meera News
		They're a hit in the UK, and now Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar are getting set to take their act, 'The Kumars at Number 42', across the ocean to the US.
		Pakistani film actress Meera, who rose to fame last year after performing a steamy kissing scene in Indian film "Nazar", produced by Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt, has reportedly decided to join politics.
		By Meera PalSTAFF PLEASANTON -- After one member asked for additional time to gather information, the City Council agreed to continue consideration of an ordinance that would ban the operation of medical marijuana dispensaries in town.
	www.dailyindia.com /news/meera.php (514 words)

	Hirsh Sawhney (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Both are defined by their dissonant sights, sounds and smells, and are filled with "all these people from amazingly different regions, living together in a glorious mishmash," she says over a cup of tea at a café near her home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
		And even though the music that blasts from neighborhood apartments is not typically Indian, other similarities make it easy for her to spend her days writing about village life in her native land.
		Nair is now working on her first novel (due in early 2005), which is set in her home state of Kerala in 1957, and which follows a landowning family as the world's first democratically elected communist government takes office.
	www.hirshsawhney.com /fromadistance.html (335 words)

	fluter.de : Indien - Eine literarische Erkundung \| Ausgabe 'Fokus Polen'
		Wie nahe dabei Komik und Tragik liegen, verdeutlicht Nair in manchen der Geschichten mit einer Wendung ins Groteske.
		So erhellt Nair, die selbst in Indien geboren ist und seit 1997 mit Kind und Mann in Brooklyn lebt, einerseits den "cultural clash", der das heutige Indien ereilt hat.
		Anita Nair wiederum verleiht in ihrem neuen Roman "Das Salz der drei Meere" den indischen Frauen eine Stimme - vor allem ihrem subtilen, aber unaufhaltsamen Aufbegehren in der von Männern bestimmten indischen Gesellschaft, die Frauen gegenüber zwischen ritterlichem Hofieren und patriarchaler Unterwerfung schwankt.
	www.fluter.de /look/article_druckversion.tpl?IdLanguage=5&IdPublication=2&NrArticle=1231&NrIssue=11&NrSection=40 (790 words)

	USATODAY.com - Vivid 'Video' images capture Indian life (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Author Meera Nair visits a number of universal themes in her first story collection: the strains of marriage, the pain of abuse, the confusion and excitement of adolescence.
		Nair, an American writer who was raised in India, infuses each tale with incisive details about Indian culture, from the magical to the mundane.
		Nair's poetic prose conveys the mood of the village:
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/2002/2002-05-07-video.htm (464 words)

	Malayalam Hotnews - Meera Nair- The Pride of India....
		Malayalam Hotnews - Meera Nair- The Pride of India....
		Acclaimed director Meera Nair has won this year's Pride of the Nation award.
		Meera Nair made her directorial debut in the year 1988 with the critically acclaimed 'Salaam Bombay', which talked about the plight of kids who grow up on the streets.
	malayalam.cinesouth.com /english/masala/hotnews/new/24042007-2.shtml (163 words)

	outlookindia.com \| wired
		In subtle gestures and keenly observed details, Meera Nair reveals an entire world of gleaming particularity and transcendent emotional power, the critics say.
		Nair was born and raised in India and came to US in 1997 to study creative writing.
		Nair lives in Brooklyn with her husband and a daughter.
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_news.asp?id=169400 (749 words)

	Nair Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
		Nair gives men the tools they need to learn to really listen to women and teaches them how to recognize prejudices against women that cloud their judgment.
		In simple and direct language, Nair explores how businesspeople can make decisions, set goals, and implement actions that are guided by the spirit of service.
		Meera Nair explores the lives of Indians in America (and, in some, back on the subcontinent) in this collection of stories, which includes "A Warm Welcome to the President, Insh'Allah!" in which a small Indian town makes elaborate preparations for a visit from President Clinton, which never materializes.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Nair (996 words)

	Laughter on the edge
		Don't blame it on Meera Nair or on my inability to laugh while all those watching the film were in splits of laughter.
		I entered the tiny auditorium where Meera Nair's family members and friends had gathered to attend the very special screening of the film with Milan Kundera on the back of my mind.
		Coming back to Meera Nair's film, it centres around a group of people who are members of the Laughter Club of India.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000422/ied22059.html (707 words)

	NetGuruIndia news main page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		New York, June 11: This is not Meera Nair of "Fire" and "Water".
		Usually the award is not given to those whose fiction "appeared in a book or nationally distributed publication with a circulation over 5000".
		Meera did write in "The three penny review" in past.
	www.netguruindia.com /news/jun00/23/NRI6.html (126 words)

	Mira Nair's take on Namesake : Bollywood, Toronto film festival, Meera Nair, Namesake, Tabu : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
		Mira Nair: The filmmaker in me is of course impatient to have the world see the film.
		Mira Nair: I think some angel must have cast a spell on me when I found Tabu for playing the character of Ashima in the film.
		She has the gravity in her eyes of playing someone who is an innocent bride at 20 to someone who has seen life at 49.
	www.ibnlive.com /news/mira-nairs-take-on-namesake/21459-8.html (557 words)

	Emailware.net - Meera nair
		Meera Nair appears at Book Woman, tonight (June 20), 7pm, to read from Video: Stories.
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