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Every history I have read of Indians in America seems to cite certain moments or figures which have become almost canonical (if not mythic) in their significance for the story[…]
On November 8, my great aunt passed away. She was born on a tea plantation in Sibsagar, Assam, on September 11, 1925, the eldest daughter of a successful industrialist and[…]
Shortly after the inauguration, the new administration announced a blanket ban on refugees and any entry into the U.S. from seven proscribed countries. The announcement was met with outrage, ridicule,[…]
“You can say you’re sorry, you can apologize, but you can’t give back the hours, the minutes, the months a family has been broken up.” — Carma Said In the[…]
In 1961, Bharati Mukherjee moved from India to Iowa. She was in her early 20s and single. With a recent master’s degree from the University of Baroda, she had come[…]
Dear Steve Bannon, I might be wasting my time writing to you. You know that old internet saying, Don’t Feed the Trolls? Well for the past couple of years I have[…]
The #sareenotsorry project uses fashion to speak back to the rising anti-immigration discourse in the United States. It’s time we stop apologizing for our skin color, language, and culture. #sareenotsorry[…]
Inspired by Martin Scorsese’s 1974 Italianamerican documentary about his parents, NYC-based filmmaker Chai Dingari made a film to share the story of his parents’ 1994 journey to the U.S. from India. Called Hyphen[…]
IRS Phone Scam. Police in Fremont, California, warn that scammers are targeting South Asians by calling from (or spoofing) a Washington, D.C. phone number and demanding that people wire $9K[…]
Editor’s Note: Prerna Lal has been writing since 2007 about the struggle to attain legal residency as a queer and undocumented immigrant in the United States. After the Supreme Court[…]
