Quick Picks: Writer & Editor Shoaib Alam
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Shoaib Alam, who moved back home with his parents last month, took over his sister’s old room, and promptly threw[...] The post Quick Picks:...
View ArticleGoing Their Own Way: Indian Women Immigrating Independently
In 1961, Bharati Mukherjee moved from India to Iowa. She was in her early 20s and single. With a recent master’s degree from the University of Baroda, she had come[...] The post Going Their Own Way:...
View ArticleYellow Roses To Greet Your Sweet Valentine
When my parents got married, almost sixty years ago, Valentine’s Day was a concept as foreign to them as the very notion of falling in love. I often referred to[...] The post Yellow Roses To Greet Your...
View ArticleIndian Street Art, Women, & Claiming The Right to Public Spaces
Once home to stray graffiti and innocuous sentences of love and heartbreak, the busiest New Delhi neighborhoods are seeing a rise in public street art, aimed at the general public[...] The post Indian...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Cartoonist, Writer & Performance Artist Vishavjit Singh
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Vishavjit Singh, a New York City based cartoonist, writer, performance artist and creator of www.Sikhtoons.com, who travels across the U.S....
View ArticleOur Histories Must Matter
On November 8, my great aunt passed away. She was born on a tea plantation in Sibsagar, Assam, on September 11, 1925, the eldest daughter of a successful industrialist and[...] The post Our Histories...
View ArticleThe Prosaic Mosaic: An Effort To Normalize Diversity In Science
On my first day of graduate school, I was one of two people of color in a room of 15 students and a marine lab of 30 people. I fully[...] The post The Prosaic Mosaic: An Effort To Normalize Diversity...
View ArticleA Struggling Writer’s Talisman
By the end of that year, I knew I had to get out of this nine-to-five cycle, if I wanted to write. It was a toss-up between my dreams and[...] The post A Struggling Writer’s Talisman appeared first on...
View ArticleTravel Diary of Zen Alladina: The Great, Grand Motherland
I wanted to visit India ever since I was a child — but with no family ties to the subcontinent, it wasn’t as easy for me as it was for[...] The post Travel Diary of Zen Alladina: The Great, Grand...
View ArticleEmbracing Bengali Folk Islam & Complex Lived Experiences In The Diaspora
Learn about namaj before you do it. Keep your eyes on the human Mecca. Fulfill human’s desire here and now, through human. Handsome Kala [Krishna]> plays in the world of the human[...] The post...
View ArticleHyderabad: A Different Kind Of Love Story
It recently came to my attention that people might not know what Hyderabad is. In my first short story to be published, I decided to make the protagonist a Hyderabadi[...] The post Hyderabad: A...
View ArticleFinding Myself Through The Great British Baking Show
It’s no secret to my friends, family, or anyone who follows me on Instagram that I love to bake. It makes sense, really, when I think about it: I’ve been[...] The post Finding Myself Through The Great...
View ArticleThe Wisdom Of Crazy
Balaram Pandey, Jairam Shastri, and Shivaram Chowby. My father bestowed these imperial names onto our three cats. My feline brothers. Prativadi Venkata loved them beyond the sensible, inter-species...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Analyst & Part-Time Amateur Historian A. Yerramilli
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of A. Yerramilli, a business analyst and part-time amateur historian with a severe wanderlust (for ancient ruins in particular) currently...
View ArticleLilly Singh Matters
A post shared by Toronto Life (@torontolife) on Mar 22, 2017 at 10:45am PDT If you were at the Barnes and Noble bookstore in Bloomington, Minnesota, a few weeks ago,[...] The post Lilly Singh Matters...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Pop Librarian & Storyteller Rekha Kuver
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Rekha Kuver, a librarian, storyteller, writer, friend, daughter, partner, sister, and above all, cool aunty. She blogs about her life[...]...
View ArticleTeachers Don’t Know Much About South Asian American Students
I recently finished my doctoral research at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Education. After a year of TA-ing doctoral students, five years teaching middle schoolers in the classroom, two...
View ArticleMy First Time Saying NO To “Giving Up” On My Accent
It was the year 1999. There was a discussion at work about formulating strategies for a new client. As the storyteller and marketing communications lead for the project, I said, “This[...] The post My...
View ArticleWhen Your Experience As A Woman In Tech Is Worse Than Your Experience As A...
I’m 36 years old, and I’ve had three careers. I’ve served for six years in the U.S. Army, I’ve worked for four years as a Ph.D. candidate/Masters student studying microbiology[...] The post When Your...
View ArticleSuspended Between Languages
I grew up learning to understand Bangla (how Bengalis refer to the Bengali language) and English at the same time — English from watching television and Bangla from my parents.[...] The post Suspended...
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