Faced with the potential of losing faith in Rahul, divine intervention and family, she is forced to confront painful truths about the past and the duality in God and husband. At the center of the novel is Pooja Kapoor, a betrayed wife and mother who is forced to question her faith and marriage when she discovers that her banker husband Rahul has fallen in love with a young Muslim illegal immigrant man who happens to be their son’s age. For his activism and groundbreaking literary work, Dhalla was awarded the Satrang Visionary Award (2013) and received a letter of acknowledgment from President Obama (2015).In the tradition of A Fine Balance and The Namesake, The Two Krishna is a sensual and searing look at infidelity and the nature of desire and faith. Shiraz is the co-founder of the 501 (c) non-profit, Satrang, a support group empowering and advocating for the rights of the South Asian LGBTQ community in Southern California, and the South Asian Program at APAIT which provides free community health education, testing and support to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. It was awarded the Audience Choice Award for Best Director at the IFFCA (2014). Dhalla’s short film, Embracewhich he wrote, produced and directed, was the first ever dramatization of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Times as “an achievement” and by Library Journal as “brilliant.” In 2008, Dhalla adapted and produced his novel into the motion picture The Odewhich premiered at Outfest.ĭhalla’s second novel, The Exiles(formerly published as The Two Krishnas) was praised as “exquisite” by best-selling author Lisa See and “riveting” by LGBTQ lit icon, Andrew Holleran. It was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award (2012). Los Angeles-based author-filmmaker, Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla was born in Kenya where he sold his first article to a national magazine, VIVA at age 13. He has since written for various national magazines and his literary/film work have been celebrated at MIT (2004), the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (2009) and at the prestigious Master’s Tea at Yale University (2011).ĭhalla’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Ode to Lata (2002) was hailed by the L.A.
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