A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news
Arts · Pop Culture · TV
You might recognize Puja Mohindra from her kindly cutting comedic response to Ashton Kutcher’s infamous brownface Popchips incident, or perhaps from her blonde-wigged persona in “Shit White Girls Say…To Indian[…]
I have been taking care of my head as well as of my cigarettes. Our bodies would burn together and we would reunite on sparked tales. I had a written[…]
Arts · Music · Pop Culture
Shebani Rao’s delightful illustrations add joy to your life in unexpected ways. See, for example, her coloring book visualizing the upbeat tunes and lyrics of Chance the Rapper’s Grammy-nominated Coloring Book,[…]
A new mental health resource website for South Asian Americans called MannMukti launched this month, a month designated in the U.S. as Mental Health Awareness Month. MannMukti’s website features testimonials[…]
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Upma Singh who lives in West Philadelphia with her husband and two cats. She aims to design better websites, products[…]
Post-9/11, it can’t be easy being a brown, bearded, man at the airport, on public transportation, or even just, in public. Raj Bains has written about this from his experience in[…]
In February 2017, the Chicago Quarterly Review published its South Asian American Issue featuring the work of 38 emerging and established South Asian writers and the April 4 reading was[…]
Three lovely languages I profess to know: English taught by pious habit-clad nuns Who insisted we speak English at school Or they raised a livid eyebrow Teachers with foreheads adorned[…]
One of the first photographs in Chitra Agrawal’s Vibrant India: Fresh Vegetarian Recipes From Bangalore to Brooklyn (Ten Speed Press) shows her great aunt, grandmother and parents shopping for guava in[…]
It doesn’t matter what epoch they’re set in, or what language they’re in — I love romantic comedies. Everything from Pride and Prejudice to Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is alright[…]
