On Curry and South Asian Diasporic Identity
Just as curry doesn’t actually exist, neither does the diasporic South Asian. — Naben Ruthnum Currybooks, Naben Ruthnum calls them. You know the ones: titles … Read more
Salman Rushdie
Hot News Mix: The Rushdie-Wimbledon-Disney-Kingsley Edition
Salman Rushdie requests parody account to stop using his name. Earlier today author Salman Rushdie tweeted a request for the administrator of @RushdieExplains to tweet under … Read more
The Aerogram Book Club On Ali Eteraz’s Falsipedies and Fibsiennes
Welcome back to The Aerogram Book Club, where Book Club editor Neelanjana Banerjee brings together writers and thinkers to discuss new South Asian books of significance … Read more
Hot New Mix: Aziz Ansari’s New Web Series, British Muslims are ‘Happy’, and More
Aziz’s ‘Food Club’ Makes a Splash. Aziz Ansari and his friends Eric Wareheim and Jason Woliner (who directed Ansari in the MTV sketch show Human Giant) … Read more
Hot News Mix: Salman Rushdie Finds Modi and the BJP ‘Worrying’ and Saris Make a Comeback
Salman Rushdie on the BJP and Narendra Modi. While speaking at Emory University’s India Summit in Atlanta on February 16, author Salman Rushdie said that actions … Read more
Freida Pinto in a Bruno Mars Video, Air India’s Rapid Descent, Misspelling Salman Rushdie’s Name + More
Feelin’ Like She’s 30 Feet Tall. Move over, Miley Cyrus: actress Freida Pinto strips and sizzles in Bruno Mars’s extra-steamy “Gorilla” video, which sheds the aforementioned … Read more
Hot News Mix: Priyanka Chopra Launches Milkshakes, Salman Rushdie’s Kid Has Feelings About Gun Control + More
Priyanka Chopra Shills Milkshakes. Beauty queen turned actress turned global popstar Priyanka Chopra announces plans to literally use her milkshake to bring the boys (and girls) … Read more
Salman Rushdie @AAWW: ‘Writing is an Act of Love’
“You don’t want to be caged by origin.” Salman Rushdie admonished a rapt audience at Tribeca Cinema’s Varick Room in New York last night. “Western … Read more
Midnight’s Children: ‘Like Forrest Gump, With Brown People’
For a whole generation of readers, particularly Indians or South Asians, the act of watching the new movie “Midnight’s Children” is always going to be … Read more
A Conversation with Satya Bhabha and Samrat Chakrabarti of ‘Midnight’s Children’
The cinematic production of Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” has, in a sense, been in the cards since the book’s debut in 1981. The epic, magical … Read more
