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Eye on India's 2013 festival ran June 7-July 14 across Chicago — Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Shubha Mudgal, Amish Tripathi and 25+ events.

Jiah Khan, 25, was found dead at her Juhu residence on June 3, 2013. The Bollywood fraternity mourned the Nishabd and Ghajini actor's death.

Arvind Mahankali, 13, won the 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee on 'knaidel' — the sixth straight Indian-American champion, after years lost on German words.

Bolly Volley Vol 13 (May 2013): 22 Bollywood picks — Khosla Ka Ghosla, Dev D, Lagaan and more — plus how digital transformed Indian cinema.

Tyler Deutsch of Washington put his 6-week-old daughter in a 10-degree freezer for an hour; bail was set at $1 million. She survived.

Retro Reel Vol 19: a true 1996 Hyderabad story — a gun at a cinema ticket window, then 'based on a true story' flashes on screen. Guess the film!

The family of 8-year-old Gurkiren Kaur Loyal claimed she died after a mystery injection in Punjab in April 2013, and that her body returned to Britain

A Charlotte mom called police on her own 13-year-old for stealing $5 worth of Pop-Tarts — and had him arrested for misdemeanor larceny to teach him a lesson.

On May 23, 2013, the Boy Scouts of America voted 61% to admit openly gay youth — ending a century-old ban, while keeping the ban on gay adult leaders.

In 2013, a white Virginia father was followed by police at a Woodbridge Walmart after security suspected him of kidnapping — his three daughters are biracial.

Suchitra Sharma's 2013 review of Rajiv Joseph's 'The Lake Effect' at Silk Road Rising — a family drama about an Indian American brother and sister, in Chicago.

Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi opened Chicago's Eye on India Festival 2013 at Drury Lane in Oakbrook Terrace — on cinema's lost depth, Urdu, and art as

India worships women as goddesses yet tolerates rape and blames victims. A 2013 op-ed on the hypocrisy — and who will fight for women's rights.

Chicago's Silk Road Rising staged the world premiere of Rajiv Joseph's 'The Lake Effect,' a family drama about an Indian American brother and sister.

Sreepathy's Retro Reel on Argo (2012): Ben Affleck's dramatization of the Canadian Caper, and what it says about American commitment and meddling.

Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh lay on a ventilator in a Lahore hospital after a jail attack, with conflicting reports over whether he was brain dead.

A school bus driver was arrested in Bikaner for allegedly raping a 15-year-old student; a hostel warden in Jaipur was also held in a separate case.

Uninor trained auto drivers, milkmen and newspaper vendors to sell SIM cards door-to-door in Maharashtra — an industry-first sales experiment.

The body of missing Brown student Sunil Tripathi was found in Providence waters and identified on April 25, 2013, through dental records.

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by five youths in Ballia district, Uttar Pradesh, in April 2013. Police said three were detained.