Aseem Chhabra is a film journalist, freelance writer, and film festival programmer. He has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, among others; and has been a commentator on Indian cinema and popular culture on NPR, CNN, BBC, as also ABC’s Good Morning America, Associated Press, and Reuters. Aseem is the festival director of the New York Indian Film Festival and the Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival in Pittsburgh, and the voice of Shadow Puppet #1 in director Nina Paley’s award-winning animated film, Sita Sings the Blues.