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On Yoga, Diversity Lite, & the Empire of American Wellness
I started learning Yoga at the age of 20 in Mumbai at The Yoga Institute, the oldest organized Yoga center in the world. I was in good health, had zero[…]
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Frameline Film Fest Features Desi-led Queer Shorts
In honor of the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan that represented a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States, we celebrate Pride Month every year in[…]
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About Onions: A Letter to My Daughter
A letter to my daughter (who is still tiny and can’t really read) *** When you were tiny — even tinier than you are now — the only times you’d[…]
Food · Life · Pop Culture
On Aspiration, Anthony Bourdain & Learning How to Live
Tony Bourdain gave me agency and taught me, a young Indian woman who wanted to see the world, how to live. I got the news about Anthony Bourdain’s death in[…]
Fashion · Life · Literature
A Slice of South Asian Americana: My Ahmedabad Clothes
I have a small stack of clothes which I refer to as my Ahmedabad clothes: pairs of long cotton tunics that fall below the knees, with short or three-quarter length[…]
Immigrant Status, Power & Politics in the South Asian Diaspora
As someone who became an immigrant at the age of 9, I talk about my experiences quite often. Looking back there’s a lot of material I can write about. From[…]
‘Do We Belong?’ Shares Sunayana Dumala’s Story of Hate, Murder & Activism
In a short film from Capital K Pictures, Sunayana Dumala shares the story of hate and murder that took her husband Srinivas Kuchibhotla’s life last year on February 22, 2017,[…]
Read Original Poetry: “Kali”
It was my mother’s fault that she birthed Me on the banks of Kaveri For try as they did they could not wash the black alluvial soil off my skin.[…]
First Day: The Joy of Coming Together for Ramadan
It is always the hardest, that’s what everyone says. There is some truth to it, I suppose. If you’re not used to fasting on a regular basis, don’t find yourself[…]
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Thoughts on the Sunken Place, Wakanda, & the Model Minority Myth
I sometimes wish I could go back in time and be my own guardian angel. I would reach down into that dark place of the Model Minority Myth and pull[…]