PERSPECTIVES

A Touch of India at the Met Gala: Karan Johar’s Raja Ravi Varma Cape was a Cinematic Tribute to Indian Heritage

When we think of the Met Gala, the dresses that flash across the mind’s eye…

‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’  is Grieving a World the South Asian Diaspora was Never Allowed to Fully Enter

I went to see the sequel with my third grader and my sixth grader, which…

My Singlehood was My Mother’s Greatest Sorrow. Understanding This Type of Love Has Been My Life Project

Ya Devi Sarva Bhuteshu, Matru Roopena SamsthithaNamastasyai, Namastasyai, Namastasyai Namoh Namah. This is the first…

Sharp as Stilettos: ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ is a High-Fashion Melodrama With a Girly-Feel

“The Devil Wears Prada 2” was easily the most anticipated movie of the year, and…

Caste in Stone:  In ‘Kali’s Daughter,’ Raghav Chandra Writes From the Marrow of the System He Critiques

On a chilly November morning in Geneva, Deepika Thakur stands before the United Nations Human…

‘Maa Ka Sum’ Tries Figure Out If You Can Find Your Perfect Match in the Age of Algorithms

Amazon Prime’s new series, “Maa Ka Sum,” made me reflect on something we rarely admit: how…

At the Edge of Memory and Erasure: What Does It Mean to Belong to a Place That is Contested, Rewritten, Forgotten?

I did not arrive at “Indigenized / Tribalized,” my eighth collection of poetry, as a distant…

Through the Immigrant Looking Glass: My Journey From a Small Village Near Srikakulam to ‘Dos Bros Force’

There’s a memory I keep returning to. An arcade near my school – not the…

Mango Season: Beyond the Divisions, a Sense of Belonging and a Shared Past That Binds the Subcontinent

Each summer, the mango reappears across South Asia and into its far-flung diasporas, bringing with…

Partition Was the Wound. Nationalism Became the Tool: The Cost of Memory and the Politics of Keeping It Alive

We Were Taught to Remember, Not to Question In the late 1990s, somewhere between high…

A Robinhood Who Wears White: ‘Matka King’ Paints an Engrossing Portrait of the Indian Gambling Kingpin

“Matka King” is a 2026 Hindi-language period crime drama written by Abhay Koranne and directed…

Trump’s Grammar: How He has Recoded the Rules of Power, How it is Asserted, Contested, and Made Real

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein In…