A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news
The dedication to Fatimah Asghar’s much-awaited poetry collection If They Come For Us reads, “my family, blood or not.” Over the course of the book, which spans the years since[…]
Auntie, I feel like I grew up with you. When I pass you in the street or see you in the spice store, I feel like you’re one of the[…]
Arts · Politics · Pop Culture
The latest art by Safwat Saleem, “Concerned, but Powerless,” responds to the current national and political climate with a series of visuals that combine retro-style images, English and Urdu text,[…]
The following piece is part of The Aerogram’s collaboration with the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA), which documents and shares the history of South Asian Americans. *** On April[…]
SF BART is once again, giving a platform to white supremacists. An organization that calls itself Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR), has placed posters at various BART stations, aimed at[…]
A recent episode of Sarah Silverman’s weekly series I Love You America shows Ravi Patel (Meet the Patels, Master of None) and his childhood friend Rishi Oza tracing their dads[…]
Shortly after my parents moved from Jamaica, Queens, to our house on Pamela Circle in the spring of 1974, my dad’s predecessor at the Union Carbide chemical plant, Dr. Sexton,[…]
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[…]
The tragic killing of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an Indian immigrant, in Kansas confronts the nation, once again, with how to emphasize the value of diversity as a counter to a climate[…]
Trump’s ties to Russia and his attacks on the press and democracy have riveted us, as well they should. But drawn, as we are, into quagmire writ-large, watching vacuous rhetoric[…]
