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Read An Excerpt From The Her Name is Kaur Collection of Stories
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 explores the concept of love in many forms:...
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Telling the Stories of South Asia: A Conversation With Sailaja Joshi of...
Hanuman and the Orange Sun Two years ago while pregnant with her first child, Sailaja Joshi was determined to find a set of children’s books that narrated the stories of India’s heritage and culture....
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The Aerogram Book Club on Uday Prakash’s The Girl with the Golden Parasol
Welcome back to The Aerogram Book Club, where Book Club editor Neelanjana Banerjee brings together writers and thinkers to discuss South Asian books of significance every other month. Join in with your...
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REVIEW: Sonia Faleiro Presents Compelling Moral Dilemma In 13 Men
If you had to choose between advancing women’s rights and advancing the rights of a marginalized indigenous tribe, which would you choose? The tension between these two competing social justice...
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Parallel Lives, Love, & Lies: Review of Ms. Marvel #11 & #12
Note: This post contains spoilers for those who haven’t read the 11th and 12th issues of Ms. Marvel. Purchase them on Amazon [#11, #12] and Comixology [#11, #12] or at your local comic book store. The...
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Holi, Holi, Holi: Original Poetry by Karthik Purushothaman
Let the colours avenge the fate of the woman who dreads leaving her bed today. Let the cleansing powers of squirt guns and water balloons cover the spectrum of her pain. Let eggshells break nylon...
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Author Mohsin Hamid Talks About Writing, Fatherhood, and TV’s Game of Thrones
This interview originally appeared in Nineteen Questions, and it is shared here by permission. Mohsin Hamid would prefer that you to call him a “nomadic novelist.” Hamid is the author of Moth Smoke,...
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Teri Holi Meri Holi Nahi Hai (Your Holi Is Not My Holi)
Well, it came and went, whether you partook in its oh-so-colorful epic high or not. Cantered on by, it did. Just like all things, beings, and seasons that pass through our lives, precisely when they’re...
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Cartoons Are Serious Business: Review of Caricaturing Culture in India
Ritu Khanduri is an anthropologist at the University of Texas-Arlington who has been working on India’s cartoon culture for many years. In Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the...
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Desi Dance Parties In The ‘90s And The Underside Of Identity Work
There is a scene in the film American Desi (2001) where one of the characters, Jagjit, reads aloud the following sentence from a campus newspaper: “The Indian club is dedicated to promoting Indian...
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A Real-Life Heart-to-Heart With My Grandmother
(Photo/Wikipedia/licensed under CC by SA 3.0) There isn’t much that dots the poor town in West Virginia my grandparents have called home for the last half-century. As new immigrants in a period of...
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“This Is One Of Those Days”: Review of Ms. Marvel #13
Note: This post contains spoilers for those who haven’t read the 13th issue of Ms. Marvel. Purchase it on Amazon and Comixology or at your local comic book store. Taking place a “great few weeks” after...
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Photo Essay: Flower Memories & The Language Of Fallen Petals
It is spring in Delhi. I see a tree top feathered with pink flowers from my window; the other day, a rain-storm neatly plucked the flowers from the tree and scattered them all across the street. When I...
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The Marginalia Podcast Episode 1: Interview with Amitava Kumar
“The Marginalia” is a new podcast featuring interviews with intellectuals, storytellers and artists. Why another podcast? Many books, because of their global perspective or perceived intellectualism,...
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Read An Excerpt From Prajwal Parajuly’s Debut Novel Land Where I Flee
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 I Flee, Prajwal Parajuly sets his...
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“Birds, and Other Baggage”— Original Poetry By Dipti Anand
Birds, and Other Baggage I. Halcyon I went in to the wild once a fully-grown woman safely buckled in her seat, but something about the way the eager wind passed through the open jeep and cradled my...
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Études for Nepal: A 100-Word Story by Sayantan Ghosh
“Billions of blue blistering barnacles!” said Captain Haddock from the rubbles of a house in Kathmandu, where lived a family of four. All faithful readers of the adventures of Tintin. Their neighbors...
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A Prayer And A Premonition: Short Fiction by Mustafa Abubaker
(Photo/Wikimedia Commons) With every sigh emanated, the tension only grew more palpable. He hadn’t imagined waiting this long; not for love — or the promise of hot tea. and back home his boys would...
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Read An Excerpt From The Blind Writer by Sameer Pandya
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 collection is...
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“A Spicy Chica”— Short Fiction By Damyanti Ghosh
Buy yourself some black garbanzo beans. Soak ’em overnight. Well, eight to ten hours, at any rate. Then cook ’em till they’re soft. I don’t know, soft, like the insides of her elbow, or her nipples,...
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