Naperville Diary

Bolly Volley Vol. 15: Imtiaz Ali's Highway has great moments and scenery but too many subplots — plus previews of Shaadi Ke Side Effects, Queen, Gulaab Gang.

ThinkGlobal Arts Foundation's 2014 family theatre production 'Around the World in 8 Folk Tales' brought folk stories from eight countries to Naperville.

Stability balls are great fitness tools — but used wrongly with heavy weights, they can explode. A trainer explains the Garcia injury and safe ball use.

School of Rock Naperville's 'Old Skool' program had parents and kids rocking out together — a look back at the 2013 feature.

The 'Chai, Chat with Books' club reviews Gone Girl: Gillian Flynn's devilish thriller of a marriage gone bad, deceit, and two narrators you can't trust.

Part 2 of a three-part interview with Amish Tripathi: rejection by every publisher, self-publishing The Immortals of Meluha, and the free-chapter marketing

Part 1 of a three-part interview with best-selling author Amish Tripathi: the philosophy of evil that sparked the Shiva trilogy and his instinctive writing

Our Naperville book club took on Paula McLain's 'The Paris Wife' — Hemingway's first marriage, the burden of genius, and whether Hadley's voice should have

Char Desmond's Cambridge Closets offered Chicago-area custom closets at about 25% below the big franchises — a local business profile from Naperville.

Chicago's Silk Road Rising staged a reading of Farid ud-Din Attar's twelfth-century Sufi poem Conference of the Birds — an essay on the birds' journey.

Amish Tripathi, author of the bestselling Shiva Trilogy, appeared at Wentz Hall, North Central College, Naperville on June 30, 2013 — archived event.

Assisted Transition of Naperville is a free senior-care concierge — helping families find assisted living, independent living, nursing homes and home care.

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

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

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.

Chicago's fifth three-day veena conference and festival (April 26-28, 2013), curated by SAPNA, opened with Chitravina Ravikiran's inaugural concert.

WDSRA recruited runners and walkers for the 2nd Annual DuPage Human Race 5K in Downers Grove, backing programs for people with disabilities.

A community appeal from March 2013, when Vasavi Chakka ran for the Indian Prairie District 204 Board of Education in the April 9 election.

A Christmas story written by eight-year-old Nyssa Aftab: when Santa runs out of time, he's replaced by the villainous Mr.