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Filmmaker Mira Nair was born in India, educated at Harvard and has spent her life traversing between two worlds. Nair talks about the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival and her work to reduce misconceptions in India about HIV/AIDS.

Although SDWFF is only five years years old, it is the longest running womens film festival in Southern California, which is great for the festival but just goes to show how much more attention and support women filmmakers could use. SDWFF was founded by Renee Herrell with the goal of providing a venue for women filmmakers and a means of countering media stereotypes about women. Herrell worked with young girls in programs like the Girl Scouts and she wanted to offer them positive and empowering images of women, something that wasn't always available in the mainstream media.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's engages in a tense exchange with students and faculty at Columbia University after an address that included nuclear ambitions, Israel, and terrorism.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a controversial appearance at Columbia University, outlining his positions on a variety of social and diplomatic issues. Introducing the Iranian president, Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, called him a "petty and cruel dictator."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to visit the U.N. Monday, but he will get a cool reception in New York. He has been rebuffed in his bid to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site. Columbia University is being criticized for asking him to speak.

A Bollywood Labor Day Weekend

The Weinstein Company's $285 million Asian film fund is officially open for business. New York Asian Film Festival director Grady Hendrix talks to Rebecca Roberts about his skepticism about its efficacy in raising U.S. audiences' awareness about Asian cinema.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he hadn't spoken to former Attorney General John Ashcroft about wiretapping while Ashcroft was hospitalized in 2004. But FBI chief Robert Mueller contradicted Gonzales' testimony on Thursday, saying the conversation was about wiretapping.

Do babies just babble, or are they trying to tell us something? Martha and Grant discuss a new video designed to decode the "universal language" of infants. A priest explains how he got busted by read

The Indian version of American Idol will take on a decidedly idol-friendly air. Religious Pop Idol will showcase people singing folk music and classical songs based on Indian religious themes and philosophical values.