A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news
In Desis Divided: The Political Lives of South Asian Americans (UMN Press), Sangay K. Mishra writes about the changing nature of the politics of immigrant inclusion … Read more
Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation explores what happens to life when everything begins to look and feel like cinema. Drawing on years of fieldwork … Read more
In We Too Sing America (The New Press), nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer catalogs recent racial flashpoints, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in … Read more
Shikhandi, or Other Stories They Don’t Tell You, by Devdutt Pattanaik, explains that queerness isn’t only modern, Western, or sexual. Rather, by looking at the vast written … Read more
Nikesh Shukla’s new novel Meatspace, is out in the U.S. on September 15, from Harper Collins, and according to The Guardian, “Like Douglas Coupland’s Generation … Read more
I push and I pull I watch and I wait I tire of being the one who wants I don’t have the courage to speak … Read more
Together, the five stories and novella in The Blind Writer by Sameer Pandya follow the lives of first- and second-generation Indian Americans living in contemporary California. The … Read more
Manil Suri describes Prajwal Parajuly as “a master capturing, with wit and humor, the day-to-day interactions between his characters.” In his debut novel, Land Where … Read more
The 26 essays in Lunch with a Bigot (to be released May 15) are Amitava Kumar’s observations of the world put into words. A mix of … Read more
Her Name Is Kaur: Sikh American Women Write About Love, Courage, and Faith offers insight into the lives of Sikh women in America. Through its stories it … Read more
The Aerogram
