Going Global with Ghosh: A Chat With Bobby Ghosh, Quartz’s New Managing Editor
Bobby Ghosh at his Time office on his last day there in June. With Bobby Ghosh being one of the most familiar — and recognizable — South Asian faces in American journalism today, The Aerogram was only...
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Commemorating the Two-Year Anniversary of the Oak Creek Tragedy
Today is the second anniversary of the Oak Creek tragedy when white supremacist gunman Wade Michael Page fatally shot six people and wounded others at a Sikh house of worship. In the United States, the...
View ArticleWhy Ferguson Matters: Desi Tweet Round-Up
If you haven’t been paying attention: pay attention. Things are going to hell in a handbasket in Ferguson, Missouri. Cops are throwing tear gas and firing rubber bullets at peaceful protesters. State...
View ArticleTibetan Monks From India Stand In Solidarity with Protestors in Ferguson
These men have come to #Ferguson, MO all the way from India, where they live in exile, to bring a message of PEACE.✌️ pic.twitter.com/Zt8zNQWGEq — Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) August 17, 2014...
View ArticleNYPD Allegedly Attack, Arrest Desi Woman Waiting For Family to Use Bathroom
A little bit of backstory: Did you know that the NYPD used to have a habit of spying on not only Muslim individuals but other brown folks — including those of us who speak Bengali and Urdu — as...
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The Nanny’s Fran Drescher Weds ‘Inventor of Email’ Shiva Ayyadurai
America’s favorite nanny recently tied the knot with Indian American inventor and entrepreneur VA Shiva Ayyadurai, the same man who received a backlash of criticism after claiming he invented email at...
View ArticleFinding Fanny Star Deepika Padukone Calls Times of India Out on Its Male Gaze
Tsk tsk, Times of India, we expected better from you, but alas. We’ll let Finding Fanny star Deepika Padukone’s exchange with you do all the talking: Supposedly India’s ‘LEADING’ newspaper and this is...
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South Asians Ring the Alarm on Climate Change
Sunday morning the world came together and took to the streets for the People’s Climate March. It was the largest event of its kind in human history, Desis were there in full force.with 400,000 people...
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Why I Went To See Narendra Modi At Madison Square Garden
Indian PM Narendra Modi gave a speech in Madison Square Garden. (Photo/Priya Arora) “Why?” If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me last week why I was going to the Narendra Modi event in...
View ArticleHow Satya Nadella Sounds a Lot Like My Brother, And Why That Is Not A Good Thing
I had just emerged from teaching a class in media studies at Seattle University last Thursday when I saw numerous posts on social media about remarks made by Satya Nadella. The recently installed...
View ArticleHot News Mix: Yes, I’ll Still Watch The Good Wife Even if Archie Panjabi Leaves
• Kayla Upadhyaya explores how The Good Wife‘s Kalinda-Alicia dynamic mirrors Gilmore Girls‘ Luke-Lorelai dynamic: Early on, Kalinda and Alicia’s post-work bar sessions become a critical part of their...
View ArticleHot News Mix: Are You Going to Add Some Garam Masala to Your Thanksgiving...
• I can’t say whether that is a good idea or not, but hot damn! we should all be so lucky as to savor this Garam Masala Rubbed Cornish Hen with Maple-Tamarind Glaze for our Thanksgiving meals in a few...
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Thoughts On The “Kiss of Love” Protests In India
Oh Darling, Kiss is India! Parodevi Pictures http://t.co/hAnid2dlNg — Kafila (@kafila) November 4, 2014 On November 2, thousands of young women and men took to the streets of Kochi in Kerala and locked...
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India’s Anti-Gay Law Forces Mumbai Fashion Boutique to Shut Doors
In a few weeks, we’ll be coming up on the one year anniversary of the reinstatement of India’s anti-gay law. I wrote a longread about it here. The law, like anti-gay laws across the world, is basically...
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What Ferguson Teaches Us About America’s Caste System
Before leaving the law to write, I was a civil litigator for eight years, though I did criminal appellate work during my first year of practice. Like most lawyers, when I read the grand jury...
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Hot News Mix: From Ferguson to Delhi, Everyone Needs to Be Heard
Yes, people are still protesting, chanting, and demanding to be heard. From Ferguson to Delhi, their words need to be heard until change happens. ~ In “Why Home is a Bad Bollywood Movie” for The...
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Did Serial Fail South Asian Americans?
For the past two months, I’ve been quietly tolerating the podcast Serial, Sarah Koenig’s investigation into the 1999 murder of high school senior Hae Min Lee from Woodlawn, Maryland, and her...
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Did Serial‘s Racialized Archetypes Work Against It?
In Aditya Desai’s recent piece in The Aerogram (Did Serial Fail South Asian Americans?), he argues that the main problem with the reporting in Serial is that Sarah Koenig belabors the split cultural...
View ArticleOur Name is Rebel: #Asians4BlackLives Protest Police Violence
On December 15, I chained my friends to the front door of the Oakland Police Department. Our group, called #Asians4BlackLives (asians4blacklives.tumblr.com), along with White and Latino allies answered...
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2014’s Most Popular Posts on The Aerogram
As we prepare to welcome 2015, let’s remember some of the stories in 2014 that you read and loved on The Aerogram. I Am Made In Bangladesh Too: An Open Letter to American Apparel’s Now-Famous Model Los...
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