An Excerpt From ‘STRINGER: A Reporter’s Year in the Congo’ by Anjan Sundaram
Anjan Sundaram is an award-winning journalist who has reported from Africa and the Middle East for the New York Times and the Associated Press. His … Read more
Twitter Pays Tribute to the Inimitable Author Khushwant Singh
The Indian literary legend Khushwant Singh passed away on Thursday at the age of 99. Singh was a well-known journalist, the founder-editor of Yojana and … Read more
Writer Ankur Thakkar Tells a Bollywood-Inspired Story Through Twitter
On Sunday, 30-year old Ankur Thakkar did something writers on Twitter do all the time — he told a short story. The difference? This Chicagoan … Read more
‘Balloons’: A Story From the Mumbai-based ‘Potluck’ Collection
Balloons is a short story that is a part of Potluck, a new literary collection that was recently released in India. From the intimate to … Read more
Still Desi After All These Years: A Review of Vijay Prashad’s ‘Uncle Swami’
Vijay Prashad’s new book, Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today, is probably best seen as a continuation of the ideas he developed in his … Read more
Original Poetry — ‘to my baby brother with American flags on his wall on the 4th of July’
The day you were born we joked that as the first to be christened on American soil you were the only one in our family … Read more
‘Smokers ♥ Company’: New Fiction by Mustafa Abubaker
The winds have picked up these nights, gusts of air sweeping away slight clouds of marijuana smoke and remnants of unspoken thoughts, dissipating into the … Read more
Keeping Up With the New Ms. Marvel Kamala Khan: Issue #1
Note: This post contains spoilers for those who haven’t read the first issue of Ms. Marvel. Issue #1 is available for purchase. When news first broke in … Read more
Penguin India to Destroy All Remaining Copies of Wendy Doniger’s ‘The Hindus’
In what’s very upsetting news to anyone who respects intellectual and academic freedom, Penguin India has agreed to recall all remaining Indian copies of scholar … Read more
The ‘Triple Package’ Roots of Indian-American Success
Quick, answer these three questions: 1. Do you think that Indian-Americans have better family values than mainstream American culture? 2. When you were a child, … Read more
