A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news
Lakshmi Gandhi 
The future of gay marriage dominated the news this week as the Supreme Court heard cases challenging California’s Proposition 8 and the Clinton-era Defense of … Read more
Ford India went into full apology mode this weekend after a series of mock-up ads featuring bound and gagged women were published on the site … Read more
In her documentary “Indian Summer” director Mridu Chandra takes viewers inside the Hindu Heritage Summer Camp in Rochester, N.Y. Throughout the short film, we see … Read more
March Madness is upon us and college basketball fans may have noticed a new face in this weekend’s highlight reels. The 20-year-old New Mexico State … Read more
Lena Dunham is television’s It Girl of the moment. She is also probably the most public sufferer of foot-in-mouth disease in recent memory. The 26-year-old … Read more
It’s no secret that we here at The Aerogram love old letters and the handwritten word. So we were delighted to learn via Buzzfeed Shift … Read more
Little is known about the life of Jesus of Nazareth as a young man, making that period the subject of intense speculation. In “Jesus in … Read more
Gurpreet Singh Sarin was eliminated from American Idol Thursday night after the judges’ panel decided his perfomance of James Morrison’s “Nothing Ever Hurt Like You” … Read more
In a thought-provoking review of “Zero Dark Thirty” on The Feminist Wire, blogger and academic Sophia Azeb describes attending the Oscar-nominated film with students from … Read more
Anoushka Shankar stunned fans around the world this week after revealing she had been sexually abused by a family friend as a child. In a … Read more
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