Teachers Don’t Know Much About South Asian American Students
I recently finished my doctoral research at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Education. After a year of TA-ing doctoral students, five years teaching middle schoolers … Read more
We Killed Nabra By Not Challenging The Narrative Of Hatred
When I heard about Nabra Hassanen, how she was kidnapped and murdered after praying at her local mosque in Virginia, I instantly thought of another … Read more
On Calling Out Prejudice In India & The Diaspora: Addressing The Tarun Vijay Complex
For all the slightly controversial moments on The Mindy Project TV series, for me, one scene stands out as most memorable. In the episode titled … Read more
Can We Please Just Stop Calling It The Indian Super Bowl?
A girl named Ananya Vinay (yes, she happens to be Indian American and yes, that’s ten years in a row, fam) won the Scripps National Spelling Bee … Read more
Odissi, The Invisible Dance
Dancers are easy to spot. Almost anyone can tell a dancer apart from a crowd. I think it’s because of the way we stand, albeit … Read more
Bacon & (Un)Belief: Religion & American Secularism in Master of None
Warning: This post contains spoilers from Season 2 of Master of None. As the first week of Ramadan is celebrated around the world, food is … Read more
The Other One Percent And The Indian American Race Problem
Every history I have read of Indians in America seems to cite certain moments or figures which have become almost canonical (if not mythic) in … Read more
The Prosaic Mosaic: An Effort To Normalize Diversity In Science
On my first day of graduate school, I was one of two people of color in a room of 15 students and a marine lab … Read more
Immigrants, Diversity & Responding To Hate Crime
The tragic killing of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an Indian immigrant, in Kansas confronts the nation, once again, with how to emphasize the value of diversity as … Read more
The Pretense of Jeffersonian Politics
Trump’s ties to Russia and his attacks on the press and democracy have riveted us, as well they should. But drawn, as we are, into … Read more
