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A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news.

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8 years
RIP #SrinivasKuchibhotla . The shooter is reported to have shouted, "get out of my country" before shooting.
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Victory for @PramilaJayapal , FIRST South Asian American congresswoman elected to the US House of Representatives
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“Please be kinder in the future,” Sanjeevi wrote in her suicide note. “Please send my ashes to my parents.”- Utah State Student Killed Herself After Eight Months of Racist Attacks—and the School Did Nothing, Suit Claims
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Episode 4 of @SAstorypodcast - @AshaRangappa_ Former FBI Special Agent and her stories behind catching spies, overcoming barriers, and creating your own career path
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“Dosas in 16th-century Karnataka were filled with a mixture of plantains, salt, pepper, curry and coriander leaves, and ghee, and not with the famous masala potato mix.” How potatoes & chillies conquered Indian cuisine - ⁦⁦ @JAJafri
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6 years
“What should have been a routine return flight home turned into a harrowing ordeal after Aeroflot staff steadfastly refused to allow American customers who were or who were perceived to be of South Asian descent to return to the US, ‘deporting’ them...”
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7 years
Daring To Be Dark: Fighting Against Colorism In South Asian Cultures, by @simplysimra
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6 years
“Specifically for desi teenagers, I would really like to see some leadership in the South Asian community talking more openly about the relationship between police brutality and black racism, and Asian American exceptionalism and the model minority myth.”
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“This Punjabi aunty who asked the robber to wait till she finishes her ‘chai’ deserves an award for badassery” h/t @nami_knows
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“It is about the president of the United States who has chosen to take this democracy to its very bottom. This is the bottom. This is abuse. It is a human rights violation, and we must end it. He must end it.” - @RepJayapal
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"Curiously enough, the one thing Freddie Mercury was never asked, nor spoke openly about, was his Indianness." -- Freddie Mercury: Out on Stage, Brown in the Closet
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NEW POST: @hasanminhaj Got Jokes & Got Real At #RTCA 2016. Read about his speech & watch it
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“The Problem with Apu," a comic cultural exposé via @harikondabolu on @TheSimpsons character
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“But in immigrant households, Corelle takes on an added significance. The widespread notion that these were the plates to buy after you move to the United States make them a distinct physical representation of assimilation.” - ⁦ @misssoniarao
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The Hate Report from @reveal looks at swastikas for sale on Etsy, and the possibility that some sellers are catering to and supporting white supremacists, while purporting to sell them as a Hindu religious symbol.
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Remembering Balbir Singh Sodhi, who died September 15, 2001, in the first fatal act of hate violence #AfterSeptember11 when he was shot while arranging American flags in front of his gas station in Mesa, Arizona.
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"Yes, I'm called a terrorist because I happen to be brown and from South Asia." - @priyankachopra to @WSJ http://t.co/wORkFlsEhs
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Strategies on How to Help Protect 3 Things President Trump Could Cut from @kalpenn + @RonnieCho
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Team owner @Vivek addresses crowd following last night's game, on the horrific tragedy of fatal police shooting of #StephonClark and respecting #BlackLivesMatter protestors ability to protest peacefully. Video via @SacramentoKings -
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"And then I wonder about the term postcolonial. I have often used it, too, but is colonialism really post-?...So many kinds of entrenched &unrecognized colonialisms still exist. Aren’t we letting them off the hook?"-Arundhati Roy, How to Think About Empire
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Post-Brexit viewing: 'Englistan' is an upcoming nine-part BBC TV drama, following three generations of a British-Pakistani family, over four decades, written by Riz Ahmed
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“Badmash is a darkly comedic noir inspired by one of India’s worst-kept secrets: Big-city gangsters used Bollywood films as a front to launder drug money.” -Issa Rae Tackling Bollywood Crime Comedy 'Badmash'
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Heroic Parkland math teacher, Shanthi Viswanathan - or Mrs. V to her pupils, refused to open the classroom door — not even for SWAT
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Progressive @PramilaJayapal Wins Washington Congressional Primary in Landslide
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“He’s extremely talented. That’s not what’s in dispute. It’s the treatment, shock and inspiration porn that surrounded his story that made it seem like his talent was improbable.” - ⁦⁦ @Imani_Barbarin
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“...but how can access to a clean toilet outweigh the violence and persecution they may face in the rest of their lives? Giving Modi this award would legitimize his policies and embolden the ethnonationalist forces he has championed.”
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7 years
Netflix Orders Weekly Talk Show From 'Daily Show' Breakout Hasan Minhaj, making Minhaj the the first South Asian American to host a weekly comedy show for TV
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“Whatever Arnav Gupta was trying to tell us when he set himself on fire Wed. near the White House while wearing a USA shirt, America needs to listen. Self-immolation is a shocking, final act, the primal scream of a person who is feeling completely unheard”
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Filipina pop superstar Sarah Geronimo totally rocks out with her version of M.I.A.’s “Bring the Noize” http://t.co/kwXLvCRXD3
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Bhumika Patel is a store clerk who fought off an armed robber with mostly just her bare hands. via @nowthisnews
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“If you can say the character names in Game Of Thrones, you can say my Tamil name,” - @ramakrishnannn , who is starring in Mindy Kaling’s Netflix series
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“Dickens’s story is the tale of an orphaned boy making his way in the world and finding himself as a man...the kind of innocence & experience story in which the Slumdog Millionaire and Lion actor shines – with all that boyish eagerness & puppy dog warmth.”
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NEW POST: Q&A With Hip-Hop & Hollywood Star @UTKtheINC , Utkarsh Ambudkar, via @_Anjali_Misra . Catch him in @BlindspottingMv , plus the upcoming #Mulan , and listen to his latest single, featuring @RafaelCasal & @DaveedDiggs , with @The_Olympicks .
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“It's been a year since Trump took office, and his South Asian appointees and supporters have been pushing an anti-immigrant, anti-civil rights, anti-Muslim, anti-woman, anti-Internet agenda.” - The Desi Wall of Shame, h/t @arjunsethi81
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A comic by @shebanimal celebrates the life of a badass feminist hero, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, whose life and work embodied intersectionality #WriteBackFightBack
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The upbeat score of @gvprakash 's soundtrack for #TheCrowsEgg : Saturday at @MovingImageNYC -
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Why Sridevi’s non-Bollywood work, especially in Tamil cinema, was ground-breaking
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Writer @fariharoisin connects personal experiences with those shared in the work of @hasanminhaj 's and Norwegian-Pakistani filmmaker @iramhaq , to write about the weighted phrase of "Log Kya Kahenge?"/"What Will People Say?"/"Manoosh Ki Bolbe?"
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“The intense violence that women of color get bombarded with daily on the internet has been clearly documented and is an everyday occurrence for most women of color active on any social media platform, including myself.” - @muqingmzhang @reappropriate
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How Pakistani Women are Using International Women's Day to Push for Peace with India - @sabrinatoppa
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“As a 12-year-old South Asian American kid, I shouldn't have had to feel guilty for not being a scholar on Indian history or holidays.”- @punitarice @EdWeekTeacher
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10 Books By Indian Authors To Look Out For In 2017, by @skrishna
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Yes Black Mirror! Finally a South Asian character who’s not a racist stereotype - @FaimaBakar on @blackmirror 's @kiransawar
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NEW POST: @pjaroonFP 's review of the sweet, funny immigrant story in @Lena_Khan 's 'The Tiger Hunter' with @dannypudi
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A roundup of queer short films exploring sexuality, gender expression, and love, featuring South Asian artists, from this year's @framelinefest . Via @_Anjali_Misra
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ICYMI: When Gay Pride Was Excluded From India Pride. A look at the exclusion of the South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA) from New York City’s India Day Parade during much of the 1990s. Via @pjaroonFP
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Host of India’s #SYTYCD , @Roymouni , dressed up as Princess Jasmine for a show segment
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. @priyankachopra + @mindykaling are teaming up for a comedy written by Kaling and Brooklyn Nine-Nine creator @djgoor . It's "being called Crazy Rich Asians meets My Big Fat Greek Wedding." Heather Morris and Nina Anand Aujla will be the exec producers.
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“We can call upon Hindu temples and community-based organizations who speak for Hindus in the United States to clarify their own positions on women’s bodies and rights, and to speak out in solidarity with the women in Kerala...” - @dviyer
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Brown and Proud: 11 Books from the South Asian Diaspora To Read Right Now, by @sona_c @BNTeens
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This country belongs to all of us! To commemorate the one-year anniversary of #SrinivasKuchibhotla 's death in Kansas, we're re-sharing posts from last year written about his 2/22/2017 murder by a shooter who shouted at Srinivas, "Get out of my country!"
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A series of #NoMuslimBanEver micropoems from @18millionrising & @kayapress . Here are four by @rajivmohabir , @TazzyStar , @HariAlluri and @chinginchen . Read all the others too here:
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'Unfair and lovely': South Asian women dare to be dark, via @chryselled @pritheworld
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The dreamy twosome @douniatee & @baedotdoe tackling body shaming and inequality
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“As it so happens, far from embodying India, Hindi is actually India’s youngest literary language, writes Shoaib Daniyal. The first Hindi novel work of literature came out only towards the close of the 19th century.” via @scroll_in
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“Panjabi would star as a successful LA attorney who leaves her comfortable, coastal bubble to practice law in America’s heartland: her home state of Wisconsin.” - @variety , on an NBC legal drama starring & produced by Emmy award winner @archiepanjabi
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‘This is what a feminist looks like’ tshirts made by indentured female labor in Mauritius http://t.co/8SFybp774m http://t.co/7eLlwN56wO
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“Selfish. It’s a word that is weaponized against Indian women in a variety of ways” - @priya_ebooks
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Dev Patel cleans up very nicely. #Oscars
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Here Is What LGBT Muslims Want You To Know After The Orlando Shooting
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NEW POST: 'If They Come For Us' a book of poetry from @BGWebSeries creator @asgharthegrouch @OneWorldLit , "spans the years since the Partition of Pakistan and India through our current age of Islamophobia and cultural hybridity." Read @atwittya 's review!
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“I write my jokes like essays, and I look for punchlines to prove my point.” - @harikondabolu http://t.co/DQrzBirIzC #Interview #Comedy
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Holi and harassment: Swetha Ramakrishnan @firstpost rewrites the lyrics to popular songs to be more consent-friendly
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#BendItLikeBeckham 's director @GurinderC on the title's meaning, in a 2003 @blackfilm interview:
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“Everybody says that I have improved immensely; even that person whose criticism in my view is most important to me — myself.” - artist Amrita Sher-Gil, age 18, in a 1931 letter to her mother.
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"It's not that girls should want to be princesses, Uppal notes. Her concern...girls in her study said they lack what they perceive as princess characteristics – beauty, desirability & Americanness." | How Disney Princesses Influence Girls Around The World
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Former military medic Mark Hinojosa was one of those tried to help as #SrinivasKuchibhotla was dying in Olathe, KS
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“Everybody has a Bourdain story, it seems; and for a lot of non-white people in this country, those stories take place in the countries their parents left, and in the American enclaves where they settled.” - @mallika_rao @vulture
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Riz Ahmed interviews M.I.A. over a meal of kale curry in Williamsburg:
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For tweets of 1st India visit by US Congress's 1st Hindu @TulsiGabbard see #TulsiIndia http://t.co/5vtHvTw5SW http://t.co/RW3Mz6MqR8
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“Patel [ @gheehappy ] explained to NBC News that he felt it important to bring aspects of the South Asian experience into media so that young members of the community can”see themselves normalized in pop culture and recognize that they matter & are included”
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#MeToo Bollywood actresses open up about sexual abuse — and why so few women dare to speak out
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On 'It Isn't True," a single about heartbreak from @sidsriram 's upcoming album: “I wrote it when I was living in L.A., going through the tail end of a relationship...this song was a necessary part of the album’s journey.” Video:
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NEW POST: @Sendhil_Rama in Pelham, NY, on 1/22 for @brahminbulls screening+Q&A. Our interview http://t.co/eVXZ8cm2vV http://t.co/Wijrim9w1F
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At @voxdotcom , @priya_ebooks on Solid Dudes. How I realized that boring, dependable guys are rare — and desirable
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"This man was our Hitler and yet, where is the hatred? Instead, there are six Oscar nominations." - @Bedatri in 'By Glorifying Churchill, Britain Is Committing New Crimes Against India'
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‘Fuck Modi’, a Protest Show in NYC, Will Go Up on Sunday Alongside Houston’s ‘Howdy Modi’ Event - via ⁦ @SharanyaDeepak ⁩ ⁦ @VICE
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#NoorInayatKhan “She was the first radio operator dropped into occupied France during World War Two. She was captured by the Gestapo. She escaped. Was recaptured. Then she was tortured and never gave anyone up. “She is a hero for our times.”
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“Colonialism, caste, and capitalism are essential to understanding Indian food. Not only with regard to what is eaten, but also who gets to eat it. This informs what is exported as “Indian food” abroad.” - ⁦ @Chicks_Balances ⁩ ⁦ @WearYourVoice
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“While all eyes were watching the Raptors make team history on the court, a different kind of history was being made in one of the broadcast booths at the Oracle Arena.” Canadian broadcasters call NBA Finals in Punjabi for first time in league history
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I Don't Identify As A Boy Or A Girl: This Is My Story - @DarkMatterPoets @MTVNews
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“The BBC is well-versed in period drama, but “A Suitable Boy” is noteworthy for being the first it will make with a non-white cast.”-from @Variety , on @MiraPagliNair directing the adaptation of Seth's 1,349-page (591,552-word) novel, to be filmed in India
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ) honored @harikondabolu with the 2018 Changemaker Award to recognize and celebrate the comedian's commitment and contributions to civil rights.
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India’s students are in full revolt against a new citizenship law that excludes Muslims
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ICYMI: Desi women from across the U.S. march against Donald Trump's policies, on the 1st day of the administration.
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Indian women marching for the right to vote, 1911. Via @BklynInstitute 's Feminism and Empire
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6 white actors who won Oscars for playing people of color
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“In U.S. politics, people of Indian origin skew Democratic—77 % of the community voted for Clinton in the 2016 race. In a dichotomy that has left many scholars puzzled, a large number of them are supporters of right-wing politics in India.” - @shankarmya
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How Black Political Resistance Informed South Asian Resistance – A Reading List, via @kamancheh749 @KajalMag
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‘Silence Is Complicity’: Why Rep. Pramila Jayapal Is Boycotting the State of the Union - @toreyvanoot interviews @RepJayapal about why she's not going to the #SOTU2018
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