“Caravan to Cox’s Bazaar”: Original Poetry by Mrinalini Chakravorty
Caravan to Cox’s Bazaar We run in the belly of the snake I hold her hand suck her swollen teat And jump barbed wire with bones that shake On shards[…]
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‘Good Talk’ by Mira Jacob: Heartbreaking, Funny, Vulnerable, & Real
“We think our hearts break only from endings — the love gone, the rooms empty, the future unhappening as we stand ready to step into it — but what about[…]
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‘The Atlas of Reds and Blues’ Considers American Moments Of Quiet Violence In Suburbia
On February 6, 2015, Sureshbhai Patel, visiting his son’s home in Madison, Alabama, was beaten by police officer Eric Parker. Parker was answering a call from “concerned” neighbor who felt[…]
‘Brown White Black’: Essays On Being Queer & Brown In The USA
Sandwiched between whiteness and blackness, being brown in the U.S. has always been uncomfortable. During the early 1900s, the American judiciary waffled back-and-forth on the racial classifications of Indian Americans.[…]
“We Are Kin”: Original Poetry by Gayatri Sethi
We Are Kin Remembrance. On the 14th of August, 1947 Pakistan was born. On the 15th of August, 1947 India was “independent.” The British called it transfer[…]
Chatting With Latha Viswanathan, Author Of ‘Lingering Tide’ & ‘Temples’
Latha Viswanathan is the Houston-based author of the short story collection Lingering Tide (2011), and the novel Temples (2018). In my review of Lingering Tide, I said Viswanathan was fearsomely[…]
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Sari Stories, Chapter Four — Politics in my Pleats: Sabika & Jasmine
How the drape holds meaning and memory for the desi mind, body, and soul. A series of interview-vignettes, showcasing uber serious sari love, brought out via passion, history, politics, through[…]
‘The Adventures of Kathlyn’: The 1913 Cliffhanger Film-Serial of an American Woman in the Exotic East
The word ‘Cliffhanger’ might well have entered the cinematic lexicon sometime toward end-1913, when early motion picture maker William Selig had a brainwave. His planned 13-part film-serial would appear simultaneously[…]
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Sari Stories, Chapter Three — Sari Sisters: Jaya & Swaati
How the drape holds meaning and memory for the desi mind, body, and soul. A series of interview-vignettes, showcasing uber serious sari love, brought out via passion, history, politics, through[…]
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Intersecting Threads & Bridging Worlds — The Films of Mira Nair
Before I begin this review, a moment of indulgent transparency: Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding is my favorite film (topping a list of otherwise action and science-fiction movies of the last[…]