A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news
Professor of South Asian history Joya Chatterji states in “The Fashioning of a Frontier,” that the events of partition are still unfolding to this day. Partition also impacts the descendant and diasporic[…]
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Be a Bone Marrow Donor. The parents of six-year-old New Jersey boy Owen Bahadur Lang, who was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia, are seeking a bone marrow donor who is[…]
Where were you five years ago, on August 5, 2012? From storytelling on the streets of Berkeley to the mass murder at the Oak Creek Gurdwara, it’s the fifth anniversary[…]
[TRIGGER WARNING] This article, and pages it links to, contain information about sexual assault and/or violence which may be triggering to survivors. Angie* NMNH is the moniker of a National Museum of[…]
Life · Opinion · Pop Culture
The past several months have been pretty rough. Each day’s news inundates us with more stories of political hypocrisy, hate crimes, or police brutality, which weigh heavy on the national[…]
To be a queer desi diasporic person is to be lonely. Lonely in rooms full of people with noses just like yours joking about which cousin will get married next.[…]
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.[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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 years[…]
