A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news
I dread seeing South Asian American leaders in the news these days. A few weeks ago it was Ajit Pai, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, enabling right-wing media to[…]
President Obama delivered his last ever State of the Union in January. As we count down to the next election, we connected with activist and writer Deepa Iyer to get her[…]
Literature · News · Politics
Scores of people crowded into the back of The Booksmith in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood last week to listen to Deepa Iyer discuss her new book, We Too Sing[…]
In We Too Sing America (The New Press), nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer catalogs recent racial flashpoints, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the[…]
• Indian film legend Suchitra Sen dies – Bengali actress Suchitra Sen — the first to play Paro in 1955’s Devdas before Aishwarya Rai played the same role almost 50[…]
