Your complete guide to South Asian events happening across NYC
Bengali diaspora poet with 20+ books to his name. PEN Nabaneeta Dev Sen Prize 2023. Reading with three other poets across an afternoon at HRC Auditorium.
Details — IHCWon Sa Re Ga Ma Pa at 16, debut Bollywood playback in Devdas 2002, since recorded in 14 languages. Two decades in one evening with full live orchestration. 19,500-seat arena, presented by BongBashi. Only Tri-State show. One PATH stop from Manhattan.
Tickets — Ticketmaster"Kal Ho Naa Ho." "Dard-E-Disco." "Abhi Mujh Mein Kahin." Multiple Filmfare and National Film Awards. One of the most recognizable voices in Bollywood playback across four decades.
Tickets — TicketmasterHindi stand-up at Town Hall. Same Sunday as Sonu Nigam at Nassau Coliseum, one hour earlier. Two ways to spend a September evening.
DetailsPunjabi-Canadian poet, 10M+ copies sold. Conversation format at Union Hall in Park Slope.
Tickets — AXSPioneer of the double violin and the touch guitar. Co-founded Shakti with John McLaughlin. Recorded with U2, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Zakir Hussain. Doors 7 PM, show 8 PM.
Tickets — WMI18th annual. Five classical Indian dance forms — Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, Kathak, Mohiniyattam, Odissi — across two evenings. Presented by the Indo-American Arts Council.
Tickets — Kaye PlayhouseOmar Sarwar builds Sufi Sessions from the tradition of the mehfil — small, seated, listening-first. New York does not have enough spaces like this. Silo NYC is the Skylight room above Cirrus Nightclub.
Tickets — Silo NYCRahat Fateh Ali Khan at Nassau Coliseum at 8 PM — nephew of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, one of the world's leading qawwals. Same Saturday: Kanan Gill brings his tour to Town Hall at 7 PM. Long Island qawwali or Manhattan comedy.
TicketsNew York City's first South Asian comedy festival. Three nights, five shows, 40+ comedians from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Aparna Nancherla headlines Sunday's Desi Women Takeover.
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