Recently, I was listening to a talk about faith, activism, and responses to harassment online. The talk, given by Balpreet Kaur, was beautiful in how it brought together a lot of elements that I respect and try to bring to my own work. Too often is it an either-or situation — you either are an […]
“These personal accounts allow us to glimpse an alternate picture of South Asian American history, one in which migrants from the subcontinent built lives with and among people who had come to New York City–and to Harlem–from different parts of the country and the world and who shared class circumstances, living conditions, parallel experiences of […]
Purdah: A social practice throughout South Asia that involves separating men from women; it was used historically as a way to keep men and women in their respective social roles and currently is used to varying degrees in contemporary social life. I learned more about purdah in a class this semester. Western perspectives of purdah […]
Whenever we have the chance, my father and I dive into philosophical discussion. After dinner, before going to sleep, upon waking up (at the absurdly early time of 5:30am, mind you, because my body is still in time shift). We’ve been talking a lot about the abstract concept of home. I’ve talked about ‘home’ writ […]
This is part three in a series of posts on Asian Americans, inspired by and in concert with a charity event being put on by the Columbia student group, Asian American Alliance. Click here to read the first and second posts in the series: “Who is an Asian American?” and “‘Will All The Asian Americans […]
This is part two in a series of posts on Asian Americans, inspired by and in concert with CultureSHOCK, a charity event being put on by the Columbia student group, Asian American Alliance. Click here to read the first post in the series: “Who is an Asian American?” and make sure to join in the […]
This weekend, Asian American Alliance (a campus group that I am a part of) is putting on their annual charity culture show, called CultureSHOCK. It’s going to be an electrifying event with a great lineup including Hari Kondabolu, Kelly Tsai, Brown Star, and many other Asian American performers and designers as part of our fashion […]
Image credit: The Poetry Foundation This article caught my attention (and held it rapt) quite some time ago, but I just now have had a moment to sit down and reflect on it in written form. I’m an English and psychology major (some days one more than the other) and have come to questioning what […]
Image via DesiStudios This movie came out in 1996, and I didn’t hear about it until college. Clearly, I was deprived of some amazing works of art in my youth. Fire is a movie about two Indian women who are in arranged marriages within the same family; the marriages are loveless and often they must […]
Summer is fast on the approach in the northern hemisphere, and though it may be a blessing to some, it can seem a curse to those who want to keep their skin as pale as possible. Today, I take a look into skin-lightening creams. Much has been said about the harmful effects of skin-lightening creams, […]