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LONDON THEN AND NOW

By SHAMLAL PURI

WHEN I first arrived in London some 35 years ago, life for Indians and Asians from the Indian-sub continent settled here was very different.

When they walked the streets of London or went to their work places, everything to them was so British. Super stores stocked everything that was British and European. Indian goods were frowned upon by English shopkeepers.

The earliest wave of Indians had arrived from the sub-continent during the British rule there. They were largely students who settled here. At that time migration was difficult and not many Indians could settle here.

They struck a compromise – outside they lived life as the rest of Britons. The only Indian touch they enjoyed was at home. They ate Indian food cooked in their kitchen, and within

their four walls, listened to Hindustani music with records and tapes bought while visiting India on holiday.. The weekends were spent enjoying the best of Indian life in the privacy of their homes.

Racism was rife in the UK in those years. The natives of England looked down upon Indian food and culture and considered Indians a species from another world. Winston Churchill’s famous uncharitable remarks describing Mahatma Gandhi, as the “naked fakir” added fuel to fire stocking racism to its zenith.

Even when educated Indians wore English suits and bowler hats in the public, they were put down as foreigners who had no right to be in the UK.

There were fewer cinema halls offering a fare of Indian movies. Those that catered for Hindustani films showed them on the weekends under special arrangements with cinema owners who normally screened Hollywood films. It was a rare treat for Indian film fans that flocked cinema halls not only to watch Bollywood films but also to socialise because they missed India.

We all watched three channels on British television – BBC 1, BBC2 and ITV, mostly on monochrome sets. Colour TV was a rarity. Indian television was non-existent except for some educational Hindi and Urdu programmes such as Nayi Zindagi Naya Jeewan shown by BBC Television with erstwhile presenters such as Mahendra Kaul, Salim Shaheed and Ashok Rampal, among the few household name Indian presenters. The programmes largely reflected

issues confronting Indians and other Asians and their lives in their country of adoption.

The only entertainment slot was a few minutes of Indian music and singers at the end of the programmes. The programmes, beamed from Birmingham, used to be a treat for Indian households on Sunday mornings who would watch these while leisurely tucking into paranthas and puris for breakfast.

When I first arrived here in the 1970s, there were few Indian journalists around. I was among very few Indian journalists settled in London. Unless you were the London-based correspondent of Indian newspapers, it was very difficult to get into mainstream British journalism because the profession was a closed shop and jealously guarded by the White British elite. You had to be a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).

Indians were caught up in a catch 22 situation – you could not get a job unless you were a member of the NUJ and you could not join NUJ unless you worked as a professional journalist. It took a very broadminded white editor to welcome you on his staff.

Those Indians who managed to get into main stream journalism were achievers. The British population landscape was changing. The trickle of Indians of arriving in the UK was going to turn into a torrent. The first hint of things to come was in 1968 however when a new wave of Indians started arriving from Kenya following that country’s Africanisation policy. Indian businesses were refused trading licences forcing them to leave the country in bif numbers.

Plane-loads of Indians started arriving in a cold Britain. The exodus is still fresh in the minds of those who arrived here in 1968.

Four years later, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, was upset with Indians living in his country, He was livid that they had monopolised the economy and taken over the entire business sector. To add fuel to the fire one Sunday afternoon he saw Indians milling around in groups and walking leisurely in Kampala and he lashed out accusing them of treating his country’s main city as if it were a suburb of Bombay. His mind was made up to expel all Asians from his country in August 1972.

Thousands of British passport holders packed their bags and arrived in the UK as refugees.

They started their life afresh. With some 150,000 Indian families from Kenya and Uganda settling in Britain, There were panic waves in neighbouring Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, from where whoever could prove British citizenship connections, arrived to settle in this country.

It had suddenly become fashionable to emigrate to the UK. With the settling of so many Indians, London suddenly lacked infrastructure to meet the needs of the new-arrivals, some of whom were not educated.

Africa’s loss was Britain’s gain.. These Indians were well-trained businessmen and started taking over corner shops from the English owners. They stocked groceries and newspapers, the daily needs of their local communities. They offered their customers a quality service which snooty British owners had not cared to give. Woe betide if you were to go and ask for a pint of milk at their closing time – they would say ‘we are closed! Come back tomorrow’. Not so with the Indians, even if they were about to put a padlock on their front door and somebody dropped in to buy a bread, they would happily open their store and serve them with a smile.

Indian-owned corner shops were an institution as they were open all hours and attracted mainly Indian customers and also some English.

The major top name super-stores were watching them in awe as they attracted business. Even they decided to join in the competition by keeping theirs open all hours. Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, paid a tribute to the Indian-owned corner shops by saying they had revolutionised Britain’s shopping system.

By using their clout for bulk-buying and lower prices to their customers the super stores succeeded in routing the small corner shops which have been closing in the current economic downturn. But history is a witness to how these small Indian shopkeepers taught the giants that quality service attracts customers.

Today Indian shops stock virtually everything produced in India complete with labels in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati and other Indian languages. While shopping in these stores sometimes one virtually forgets that they are shopping in a store on British soil and not in Mumbai. Every summer mangoes imported from India and Pakistan are in popular demand as are other fruits and vegetables flown from there.

As the community settled, their social needs also grew. London lacked a radio station offering Indian music.

It was a great day when London Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) teamed up with Indian broadcasters to launch Geetmala, a weekly entertainment programme. It was presented by Chaman Lal Chaman, a well known Indian broadcaster from Kenya and produced by Suresh Joshi. LBC’s Keith Belcher was credited with allowing Geetmala to come to fruition. That programme became a firm fixture with thousands of Indian listeners.

Geetmala ended its run a few years later, but this proved there was a need for radio stations offering Indian programmes. Other radio stations followed.

There were several pirate radio stations run by various ethnic communities, which were raided and closed down by the Home Office, the Government authority. They rose again until the authorities realised they had to cater for Britain’s ethnic minority communities and the best way to regulate them was to licence them.

Sunrise Radio was born out of such a creation. It has prospered with the creation of several radio stations and a small slice of satellite broadcasting.

It is now very easy to set up a commercial Asian radio station. All you need is money and a set of very sound reasons to convince the Home office to grant a broadcasting licence.

Meanwhile, BBC TV’s erstwhile Nayi Zindagi Naya Jeevan was also on its last legs. It had served its purpose (and bored its audiences thoroughly). BBC TV in Birmingham started

revamping itself and its Asian Unit looked at different ways to develop programmes for the growing Indian, Pakistani and other Asian communities. ITV also jumped on the bandwagon with its own programmes for Asian and Black viewers.

For Asian viewers, Eastern Eye was broadcast under the watch of Indian broadcaster Samir Shah and a team that once included the famous Karan Thapar, Narendra Morar, Ziauddin Sardar, Shyama Perera and Aziz Kurtha. I worked for Samir Shah on a series of programmes.

For Afro-Caribbean viewers, there was Black on Black under the watchful eye of the highly respected broadcaster, Trevor Philips, who is today the chairman of Britain’s Commission for Racial Equality.

These programmes ended their run after a few years.

While BBC and ITV-controlled the terrestrial airwaves for many years, there was ample market for cable and satellite TV.

The arrival of Zee TV and Sony TV revolutionised the entire Indian media scene. Now, viewers in the UK enjoy whatever is being shown on these channels in India. With a wide array of programmes to choose from, these TV networks have actually brought India into the living rooms of British Asians. Apart from these two networks, Star TV, Star Plus, BFU, Zee Music and a wide array of other channels such as Vectrone, Alpha Punjabi, Zee Gujarati, have set the media scene ablaze in Britain.

In many Asian households, terrestrial TV channels such as the BBC and ITV have long been ignored as there is great enthusiasm to watch Indian soaps and films every day.

Added to this is the plethora cinema houses such as Cineworld, Himalaya and various other theatres offering latest Indian film releases.

So, far away from home, people still feel at home in Britain with a wide variety of choice.

Alas, the same cannot be said of newspapers for the Asian community.

The print media, which first started revolutionising coverage of Indian events has long been left behind.

There have been household names as India Weekly (where I worked as an assistant editor in the 1970s), Eastern Eye, Asian Voice, Garavi Gujarat, Gujarat Samachar, Asian Trader, Des Pardes, Navin Weekly and a variety of other language newspapers and magazines offering a regular diet of news from back home.

The newspapers and magazines used to have a good readership base at one time but nowadays, apart from first generation Indians who enjoyed a good read, a lot of these have now crossed the floor to Indian TV and radio channels.

The late Chottu Karadia, editor of the weekly current affairs magazine, Asian Post, once said sardonically: “Asians simply do not read! Why don’t our Asians read newspapers?”

The magazine was losing sales and consequently, advertising revenue.

Asian newspapers have depended very strongly on local government advertising and a band of loyal readers. Both of these have been dwindling in recent years, making enterprising Indian publishers live on precarious budgets.

The future for the Indian owned print media is not very strong. Radio and TV have a future here, though, the Chief Executive of Sunrise Radio once lamented on air, that while Indian traders stocked Coca Cola in their shops and stores, the multinational did not see it fit to advertise its brands on his radio station.

That perhaps, says a lot about the business of publishing for the Indian community in the United Kingdom. — Shamlal Puri

shamlalpuri@gmail.com

IMFF Cinedays M, taking place in Skopje through September 7, celebrates the past, present and future of the music and film. The Festival’s focus is on music-related content, including feature films, documentaries and short films submissions that have an emphasis on music – rock, jazz, blues, soul, reggae, punk, pop, reggae …. old and new. River View Players based in Harlem open a new performance series on September that will present readings of plays (featuring DuEwa Frazier, Lit Noire Publishing), short stories, poetry, music and films every Sunday from 4 to 6 in the back room of Cafe Largo. Free food tastings will be offered from the Cafe on this occasion, and the event is free and open to the public.  indieWIRE presents filmmaker Alan Ball and actress Summer Bishil in a discussion of their new film, ‘Towelhead,’ at the Apple Store, SoHo, September 8. “The Down-Low on Distribution” is a seminar on September 10 in Los Angeles attempting to decode the different distribution deals so that you can get the best rights in your agreement. New York Television Festival which has featured acclaimed independent pilots that were purchased by networks such as NBC Universal, A&E, and the like, will feature an “Industry Day” session in which industry leaders participate in a number of panel discussions, when it runs September 12-17.

At this year’s Boston Film Festival a program of shorts, documentaries and feature films premieres during the festival’s run from September 12-19,  and  evening  receptions are hosted by regarded chefs and restaurateurs providing the ideal scene for filmmakers and talent to network as well as sponsors to entertain. The IBC 208 Conference and Exhibition, September 12-28 in Amsterdam, addresses personalised content over the web; future broadcast businesses and the changing audience; the “digital dividend” and the battle for bandwidth; production and protection of all types of content, and other areas. At “Fund Your Film Workshop With Stu Pollard,” key elements of an independent film business plan, including structure, layout and research and a primer on private equity financing for truly independent projects, will be reviewed when the one-day session meets September 13 in Dallas. Independent Film Week, formerly know as the IFP Market, is still a gathering for industry professionals where pitch meetings search for new talent, and cash, product donations and services are awarded to participants. The Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival’s social calendar starts with Opening Night Festivities on September 17, followed by daily and nightly filmmaker/musician receptions, industry workshops, a Lifetime and Career Achievement Awards Black Tie Gala, a Sunday morning Hot Air Balloon Ride, a Closing Night Wrap party (September 21) and Best of Fest special screening presentations and more. The NBC Universal Women Writers Workshop, September 18-25 in Toronto, will target intermediate women screenwriters who have a treatment or first draft, and will work toward the development of their next draft of a feature script. It will focus on script development and building on concepts introduced in the Feature Film Writing Program emerging module.

Screenwriting and the Business of Hollywood, will be conducted September 19 and 20 from Rock Island, by Act One Seminars, intensive, practical workshops for aspiring and professional writers and entrepreneurs who are serious about their Christian faith and who dream of creating culture that respects and enriches a global audience. SWAMP and TALA present the Business of Film Conference 2008, a September 20 event at Rice University Media Center focusing on the business of making movies with professionals from the film, legal and financial worlds that address a wide range of topics, including budgeting for film, funding resources, music rights, distribution and more. The Film, Stage and Showbiz Expo will allow participants to showcase their film/video/movie reel for Producers and Production Companies at a private screening area all day at the Expo, and Telsey + Company will conduct an open talent search for some of the hit Broadway shows they represent at the one-day event, September 21, in New York. In Gene Autry, Oklahoma, the Gene Autry Oklahoma Museum celebrates the legacy of the singing cowboys with its Film & Music Festival. It’s a gathering of cowboy and country singers, cowboy poets and storytellers, Western film stars and look-alikes, and it happens from September 24-28. The 17-day New York Film Festival gets underway September 26 in New York, with its program of emerging and international filmmakers. Black Entertainment Magazine in conjunction with Talents Connection hosts the September 27 Business, Arts & Entertainment Conference in Los Angeles, with slated workshop sessions on “Surviving Hollywood,” and “Getting your children in commercials,” and a premiere screening of soon to be released BEM film ‘True Riches’.

The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the “Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events” page. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Bit Torrent, as well as on The Actor’s Checklist podcast blog, a great place to get your iPhone, ipod or Apple TV download from. The Free Home Video Showcase serves as an archive for all past video presentations. This month on video you will see trailers and sample clips of ‘True Riches’ a collaborative production of Talents Connection, and BEM Films, slated for a premiere screening at the Business, Arts & Entertainment Conference, September 27 at LA Convention Center. Strange comedy from The Pimps Horror Houseâ„¢ TV show Cleveland. The creative duo of H.G. Robert and Wayland Anderson, that form DANCEWORDZ, a production company that writes, choreographs and stages shows for professional companies and art programs. The Actor’s Checklist now lets you check the latest musical artists song releases on Apple’s iTunes, updated on an hourly basis.

IMFF Cinedays M, taking place in Skopje through September 7, celebrates the past, present and future of the music and film. The Festival’s focus is on music-related content, including feature films, documentaries and short films submissions that have an emphasis on music – rock, jazz, blues, soul, reggae, punk, pop, reggae …. old and new. River View Players based in Harlem open a new performance series on September that will present readings of plays (featuring DuEwa Frazier, Lit Noire Publishing), short stories, poetry, music and films every Sunday from 4 to 6 in the back room of Cafe Largo. Free food tastings will be offered from the Cafe on this occasion, and the event is free and open to the public.  indieWIRE presents filmmaker Alan Ball and actress Summer Bishil in a discussion of their new film, ‘Towelhead,’ at the Apple Store, SoHo, September 8. “The Down-Low on Distribution” is a seminar on September 10 in Los Angeles attempting to decode the different distribution deals so that you can get the best rights in your agreement. New York Television Festival which has featured acclaimed independent pilots that were purchased by networks such as NBC Universal, A&E, and the like, will feature an “Industry Day” session in which industry leaders participate in a number of panel discussions, when it runs September 12-17.

At this year’s Boston Film Festival a program of shorts, documentaries and feature films premieres during the festival’s run from September 12-19,  and  evening  receptions are hosted by regarded chefs and restaurateurs providing the ideal scene for filmmakers and talent to network as well as sponsors to entertain. The IBC 208 Conference and Exhibition, September 12-28 in Amsterdam, addresses personalised content over the web; future broadcast businesses and the changing audience; the “digital dividend” and the battle for bandwidth; production and protection of all types of content, and other areas. At “Fund Your Film Workshop With Stu Pollard,” key elements of an independent film business plan, including structure, layout and research and a primer on private equity financing for truly independent projects, will be reviewed when the one-day session meets September 13 in Dallas. Independent Film Week, formerly know as the IFP Market, is still a gathering for industry professionals where pitch meetings search for new talent, and cash, product donations and services are awarded to participants. The Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival’s social calendar starts with Opening Night Festivities on September 17, followed by daily and nightly filmmaker/musician receptions, industry workshops, a Lifetime and Career Achievement Awards Black Tie Gala, a Sunday morning Hot Air Balloon Ride, a Closing Night Wrap party (September 21) and Best of Fest special screening presentations and more. The NBC Universal Women Writers Workshop, September 18-25 in Toronto, will target intermediate women screenwriters who have a treatment or first draft, and will work toward the development of their next draft of a feature script. It will focus on script development and building on concepts introduced in the Feature Film Writing Program emerging module.

Screenwriting and the Business of Hollywood, will be conducted September 19 and 20 from Rock Island, by Act One Seminars, intensive, practical workshops for aspiring and professional writers and entrepreneurs who are serious about their Christian faith and who dream of creating culture that respects and enriches a global audience. SWAMP and TALA present the Business of Film Conference 2008, a September 20 event at Rice University Media Center focusing on the business of making movies with professionals from the film, legal and financial worlds that address a wide range of topics, including budgeting for film, funding resources, music rights, distribution and more. The Film, Stage and Showbiz Expo will allow participants to showcase their film/video/movie reel for Producers and Production Companies at a private screening area all day at the Expo, and Telsey + Company will conduct an open talent search for some of the hit Broadway shows they represent at the one-day event, September 21, in New York. In Gene Autry, Oklahoma, the Gene Autry Oklahoma Museum celebrates the legacy of the singing cowboys with its Film & Music Festival. It’s a gathering of cowboy and country singers, cowboy poets and storytellers, Western film stars and look-alikes, and it happens from September 24-28. The 17-day New York Film Festival gets underway September 26 in New York, with its program of emerging and international filmmakers. Black Entertainment Magazine in conjunction with Talents Connection hosts the September 27 Business, Arts & Entertainment Conference in Los Angeles, with slated workshop sessions on “Surviving Hollywood,” and “Getting your children in commercials,” and a premiere screening of soon to be released BEM film ‘True Riches’.

The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the “Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events” page. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Bit Torrent, as well as on The Actor’s Checklist podcast blog, a great place to get your iPhone, ipod or Apple TV download from. The Free Home Video Showcase serves as an archive for all past video presentations. This month on video you will see trailers and sample clips of ‘True Riches’ a collaborative production of Talents Connection, and BEM Films, slated for a premiere screening at the Business, Arts & Entertainment Conference, September 27 at LA Convention Center. Strange comedy from The Pimps Horror Houseâ„¢ TV show Cleveland. The creative duo of H.G. Robert and Wayland Anderson, that form DANCEWORDZ, a production company that writes, choreographs and stages shows for professional companies and art programs. The Actor’s Checklist now lets you check the latest musical artists song releases on Apple’s iTunes, updated on an hourly basis.

In addition to a week-long meeting over international animation production, AniFest, which runs through May 10 in Trebon, strives to facilitate the best contacts among Central European artists who are engaged in animation, especially after the festival through the ongoing AniFest Echoes. The Council on Foundations’ 42nd Annual Film & Video Festival in Baltimore showcases films, videos, and television programs, May 4-7, that have received support from foundations, corporate giving programs, and donor networks, with the aim of encouraging grantmakers to use media to advance their philanthropic goals. A festive party atmosphere takes shape when the 16th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film presents a program from May 5-10 of screenplay workshops, fine art by Japanese artist Kozue Kodama, live music, and animated film in the open air festival garden at the Schlossplatz, free of charge to the public.  Representatives of newspapers, television, magazines, radio and web-only outlets will come together to discuss new-media both on the business and editorial sides, and culminating  with awards for the Best Media-Affiliated Internet Services presented by Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek, at the Interactive Media Conference & Trade Show happening in New Orleans, May 6-7.

For one day, on May 11, Content Delivery Summit assembles in New York and brings together customers, vendors, analysts, and Wall Street to discuss and define where the video delivery industry is headed. And on the very next day, May 12-13, in the same New York hotel, annual Streaming Media East 2009 Conference & Exhibition continues the topic of online video in a broader sense, catering to the needs of content owners, viral video creators, online marketers, enterprise corporations, broadcast professionals, ad agencies, educators and others that come to Streaming Media East to see and hear the latest online video technology, and to discuss the business models that are coming of age. Game Developers Conference Canada 2009 meets May 12-13 in Vancouver and covers industry-leading methodologies in game design, production, programming, visual arts and writing for big-budget multiplatform games. The CLIO Awards will be celebrating its monumental 50th Anniversary in Las Vegas, highlighting accomplishments in the industry with five new and distinct award shows, after parties, conference sessions, industry networking opportunities, and more. Cannes Film Festival gets started this year May 13, continuing through May 24.

Former US president Bill Clinton will join actress Sharon Stone at this year’s Cannes Film Festival AIDS fund-raiser in southern France, Clinton will attend the May 21 event alongside Stone, Harvey Weinstein, Carine Roitfeld, Michelle Yeoh and Donatella Versace, among others. The gala will take place at the Eden Roc, at Cap d’Antibes. The Indie Film Jam is back for its fifth year as part of the Florida Music Festival, running May 14-17, screening selected films in the heart of Downtown Orlando throughout the FMF weekend and offering independent filmmakers networking opportunities as well as industry panels designed for educating, enlightening and gaining insight into the world of filmmaking. The George Foster Peabody Awards which recognizes distinguished achievement and meritorious service by broadcasters, cable, webcasters, producing organizations, and individuals, conducts its 68th annual awards May 18 in New York, with a reception that begins at 11 am, followed by lunch, with Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News the events MC. At this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, running May 21 through June 21, SIFF will present the 2009 Golden Space Needle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Directing to Spike Lee, on May 23, followed by a screening of Lee’s ‘Passing Strange, a Q&A session, and an intimate Tribute Dinner celebration with Spike Lee as the guest of honor. Later in the festival, director Francis Ford Coppola  will host a special presentation of his new film, ‘Tetro’ at a June 10 screening. MUTEK is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination and development of avant-garde digital creativity in sound, music, and audio-visual art, which it does in part through the annual presentation of its namesake festival held in Montreal, this year running May 27-31. Nashville Screenwriters Conference will again offer one of its more popular panels, “Music in the Movies,” offering aspiring songwriters, composers and artists advice on how to get their music placed in films and TV, when it assembles again this year for sessions running May 29-31.

The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the “Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events” page. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Daily Motion, as well as on The Actor’s Checklist podcast blog. Leading entertainment industry publication Back Stage has redesigned their Backstage.com website to allow for better resume and picture upload, casting and job alerts, and much more. Follow the posting of the news summary on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/actorschecklist  This month on the video news summary you will again see a dynamic array of artists in performance of film and music. Last month’s video news summary showcase featured New Jersey based Mindbreak Entertainment’s with murder mystery thriller The Secret, directed by Ian J. Kenney. The futuristic 4D virtual gaming arena ‘Turbo’ a short film from Jarrett Conaway, in the tradition of the Karate Kid and Tron. Los Angeles based Rooftop Mind, with ‘Sex Text’ and The Moonlit Road. Music video production company, THEfilmboyPROJECT, of London with ‘Never Wanna Lose You’ performed by East End hip hop, r&b group, DNA. A documentary segment in which film composer Jermaine Stegall conducts the Hollywood Studio Symphony. These videos are now available on the Free Home Video Showcase which now serves as an archive for all past video presentations but without the audio news narration.