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Five Days of Terror in Imphal: How State-Sponsored Pogroms Made Us Refugees in Our Country

My family lived in a locality called PaiteVeng, a suburb in Imphal, Manipur, in India.…

Debut Hindi Novel ‘Madhopur Ka Ghar’ Revels in the Quirks of Fate and Ironies of Indian Village Life

“Madhopur Ka Ghar” by Tripurari Sharan is an intriguingly personal novel, part historical, part mimetic,…

Abraham Verghese’s ‘The Covenant of Water’ is An Epic Tale of Conflict and Unimaginable Grief

Not ambitious like “The God of Small Things” but sincerely vested in Godliness. Abraham Verghese…

‘Agastya, The Path’: A Book of Profound Wisdom About Human Possibilities and Potential

Reading the preface for “Agastya the Path,” I already felt appreciative of what was in…

Meet Urwa Zubair, the Pakistani American Filmmaker Bridging Cultural Gaps and Sharing Diverse Stories

In the vast landscape of South Asian artists making their mark in the United States,…

All Fall Flat: Why California’s Caste Discrimination Bill is Itself Discriminatory

In the past several months the drumbeat behind the effort to make “caste” a separate,…

Monica Ali’s New Novel ‘Love Marriage’ Exposes Closely Guarded Secrets in Brilliant Prose

After reading “The Golden House” by Salman Rushdie and dwelling on nostalgic and scandalous stories…

Quittok Trend: Video Depicting Gen Z Quitting Jobs is an Expression of Their Power Over Untenable Situations

In an age where private journal entries are public ‘Gram stories, it comes as no…

The Story of Velveteen Cat: When the Fairy Whispered ‘You Should Go, the Little Girl Will Be Waiting For You’

Once upon a time, there was a Velveteen Cat made from soft fur with ears…

The Enigma of Arrival: The America I Had Imagined Is Not the America I Found

Why did I choose to move to a completely new environment, culture, and society and…

‘Inkilab Zindabad’: How I Stepped Away From My Comfortable Perch and Joined the Resistance

I have followed politics for a very long time. I am deeply interested in the…

When I Came Out Happy: Confessions of a Proud Mother of a Queer, Nonbinary Child

The day my only child came out to me was one of the hardest in…

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