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Read “Dubbing for Obama” Excerpt From Anand Pandian’s Reel World
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 with Tamil filmmakers, artists, musicians, and...
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Deepa Iyer On Rejecting the Politics of Fear This U.S. Presidential Election...
President Obama delivered his last ever State of the Union in January. As we count down to the next election, we connected with activist and writer Deepa Iyer to get her take on the future of American...
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Book Review & Author Chat: Land Where I Flee, by Prajwal Parajuly
Land Where I Flee by Prajwal Parajuly is a novel about home and family. It’s a story about a Nepali-Indian family from the state of Sikkim in Northeastern India who have fled their home for a number of...
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Read An Excerpt From The Introduction To Sangay K. Mishra’s Desis Divided:...
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 — and difference — in America. From...
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Review: Mishra’s Desis Divided Looks At South Asian American Politics Through...
One of the most interesting and enduring debates in academia and popular culture is over the use, prevalence, and necessity of the moniker “South Asian.” At its most basic level, the phrase describes...
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Review: Waves Of Identity In Stories From Sharbari Ahmed’s The Ocean of Mrs....
True to the aesthetic of the short story form, The Ocean of Mrs. Nagai: Stories is a collection of carefully crafted slice-of-life moments, which to experience the reader must first be invited in, led...
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Interview With Sharbari Ahmed: A Writer for The Page, Stage and Screen
Sharbari Ahmed (Photo/Facebook) Sharbari Ahmed writes fiction, screenplays and plays. Her debut collection The Ocean of Mrs Nagai: Stories was released in 2013 by Daily Star Books and has been reviewed...
View ArticleRead Poetry By Sanjeev Sethi: “Holograph” and “Ascot”
HOLOGRAPH There never has been a go at noblesse oblige but bills of other kinds have been hounding me with haste. Legitimate or illegitimate a bromide allows us to believe, pain pinches the wearer. I...
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Pieces of a Man: A Review of Poet Sanjeev Sethi’s This Summer and That Summer
Poet Sanjeev Sethi reveals to the reader his most private self, as one leafs through This Summer and That Summer (Bloomsbury), his latest and third collection after Nine Summers Later (1997), which...
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Read Original Poetry by Sindhuja Ramasubramanian —“A Coracle Ride”&“Prayer (a...
A Coracle Ride I squat on one side of the basket – boat, ready to be propelled across the green river’s girth. Unequally balanced, by the weights of those aboard, it threatens to tip over – and I feel...
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Happy Birthday Prince! Read A Tribute-In-Verse From The Morning Papers
The Morning Papers is a collection of pieces on the wonder that was and is Prince. In April, the world lost an unparalleled singer and musician — and also a poet, scribe, and even spiritual beacon....
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The Aerogram Book Club: Rich and Pretty Summer Reads Edition
The next Book Club from The Aerogram will feature Rumaan Alam‘s debut novel Rich and Pretty (Harper Collins, June 2016), about best friends Lauren and Sarah as they navigate the way friendships...
View ArticleRead Original Poetry by Aditi Kay: “Ode to Cities: City Conversations and...
Ode to Cities City Conversations I Crowded coffee shops, the chaos of other conversations I found you in places like these Anonymous hideaway worlds with rushed waiters, and the same stained menu we...
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The Aerogram Book Club On Rumaan Alam’s Rich and Pretty
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. Join in with your thoughts in...
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Grab Some Ghee & Savor Some Brown Slices Of The Recently Closed Toast
Launched in 2013 by Nicole Cliffe and Mallory Ortberg, The Toast came to a close on July 1 — though its archives will remain online for admirers of its quirky humor and hilarious and illuminating...
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Native Believer, A Secular Muslim’s Dark, Disturbing Identity Crisis
Whether or not you’ll find Ali Eteraz’s novel Native Believer a worthwhile read depends on your expectations. If you’re looking for a clean, straightforward book with a clear, crisp message about the...
View ArticleRead Original Poetry By Henna Kaushal: “Broken Motherland”
The wrinkles on her forehead bend and curve like the Chenab filling and defining her face. Deepened with wisdom and worn with time, I cannot imagine her without them. Hands so delicate, hands that...
View ArticleRead Original Poetry By Mustafa Abubaker: “Yeksui”
yeksui it is whispered, that not even lovers know where to go. up the trying trail. or down the absolving abyss. the truth is, a whisper invites yeksui all the same; when navigating a frozen tundra in...
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Read Original Poetry by Sonali Raj: “At the Jamuna”, “Neither this nor that”,...
At the Jamuna She cannot be killed, but is tortured into supplication Her veins course with poison from the murk that pours in To the pilgrims migrating in caravans across the Winter sky, she is a...
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Good Girls Marry Doctors — Brave Voices On Daughterhood In South Asian...
To all the American daughters of South Asian immigrants: Have you ever felt that you just can’t be a Good Girl? Your parents and South Asian community have likely tried drilling in you that Good Girls...
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