Friday Night Shorts at Third I’s Film Festival
I’ve got a game plan for your Friday night. Go check out the 3rd I Films Coast to Coast: Mumbai to the Mission shorts program at New … Read more
Meet The Patels Takes On Arranged Marriage Trope
“Not getting married and staying single is the biggest loser you can be.” This is the candid assessment that Ravi and Geeta Patel’s voluble father … Read more
The White Science of Meditation
This month, Scientific American launches a cover story on the “Neuroscience of Meditation” describing how this ancient Hindu and Buddhist practice is now being accepted in … Read more
Will California South Asians Vote Their Green Values?
The following post reflects the views of its authors and does not constitute an endorsement by The Aerogram. The Aerogram does not endorse any candidate … Read more
Women and War: A Review of Rohini Mohan’s The Seasons of Trouble
Rohini Mohan’s first book is a nonfiction account of three people living through postwar Sri Lanka. The book released October 2014 in the UK, US and … Read more
The Washington Post Discovers Indo-Caribbean People Exist
As Americans prepared to commemorate Columbus discovering the New World this October, a travel writer from the Washington Post fell asleep on the A train and … Read more
Dialogue, Identity and ‘How Do You Pronounce That?’
Every time I am introduced to someone new, I say my name and pause, waiting for the furrowed brow and inevitable question: how do you … Read more
How Satya Nadella Sounds a Lot Like My Brother, And Why That Is Not A Good Thing
I had just emerged from teaching a class in media studies at Seattle University last Thursday when I saw numerous posts on social media about … Read more
A Recipe for ‘Heroing’: Review of Ms. Marvel #8
Note: This post contains spoilers for those who haven’t read the eighth issue of Ms. Marvel. Issue #8 is available for purchase on Amazon and … Read more
Bang Bang: Lots of Smoke…Hardly Any Fire
Has Bang Bang created an exciting Hindi film out of a mediocre movie from America? The answer is a resounding no. Film posters for Bang … Read more
