Sakina Jaffrey Talks ‘House of Cards,’ Netflix, and Working with Kevin Spacey
The Netflix series “House of Cards” became an instant hit when it debuted in February. Actress Sakina Jaffrey plays White House Chief of Staff Linda Vasquez … Read more
Film Festival Touches on Human Rights in India
The state of human rights in India was a recurring theme throughout this year’s New York Indian Film Festival. Director Hansal Mehta won the festival’s … Read more
‘The Only Real Game’ Explores Baseball in Manipur
Baseball may be best known as America’s pastime, but a new documentary explores the sport’s long history in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. According … Read more
Mira Nair Brings ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ To The Silver Screen
In her latest film “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” director Mira Nair explores the life of a young Pakistani man who slowly becomes more radicalized after the … Read more
Original Poetry by Tasnim Ahmed
blind. What are you, she said. I am human, woman, girl, this is a question I dread. To be molten sugar, caramelized brown is a … Read more
SAADA’s Samip Mallick: ‘There Are So Many Stories Waiting to Be Heard’
“The history of South Asians in the United States is not a history that you learn about in textbooks, it’s not something that you see … Read more
Midnight’s Children: ‘Like Forrest Gump, With Brown People’
For a whole generation of readers, particularly Indians or South Asians, the act of watching the new movie “Midnight’s Children” is always going to be … Read more
That Awkward Moment When Selena Gomez Suddenly Decided She Was Indian at the MTV Movie Awards
If you weren’t watching last night’s airing of the 2013 MTV Movie Awards, well, I applaud your life choices. If you found yourself taking a … Read more
A Conversation with Satya Bhabha and Samrat Chakrabarti of ‘Midnight’s Children’
The cinematic production of Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” has, in a sense, been in the cards since the book’s debut in 1981. The epic, magical … Read more
Where Have I Seen Him Before? ‘New Girl’s’ Satya Bhabha
Fans of the Fox Sitcom “New Girl” may have been wondering where they’ve seen the guy playing fiancé to Hannah Simone’s Cece this season. Or … Read more
