sarah2009:

I posted earlier that I was part of an organizing collective called DC Desi Summer. NYC organizers are hosting a comedy & performance arts show to help raise funds for the program. Hope some can come out and support!

DC Desi Summer Fundraiser Benefit Show featuring Hari Kondabolu, the beautiful YaliniDream and youth poet Sabiya Bacchus

6.14.11 @ 7pm Karma Lounge. NYC.

Buy your tickets here:

$15/ 2 for $25

http://dcdesisummer.weebly.com/nyc-fundraisers.html

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DC folks we have a show for you too!

Aparna Nancherla and Shahryar Rizvi

6.10.11 7:30-9pm.

tickets available here: 

http://dcdesisummer.weebly.com/fundraisers.html

flyer design: Nafisa Ferdous

Hari Kondabolu interview via MTV Desi

Hari (left) and his brother Ashok (right) in 1987.

“After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.”