The Problem isn’t Simply Apu
News that actor Hank Azaria will no longer voice the character of Apu on The Simpsons has been received as something of a shocker. Typically, online reactions h
R. Benedito Ferrao
Finding Freddie
Center: Freddie Mercury at St. Peter's School The halls of St. Peter’s School
Looking For Phoenicia Street, 1969
It was the year my parents would marry in Kuwait. In the 1960s, as Goa was annexed by India and the creation of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Coun
Guilty of Walking While Brown
O n February 6, 2015, an elderly Indian man was left partially paralyzed following an encounter with the police in Madison, Alabama. News of the event spread vi
Some Other Country
Night had fallen on Melbourne by the time I had gotten through immigration and customs. I made my way through the crowd of smiling people, some holding up “We
The Stagnant Traveler
A whole year would go by before I could visit her grave. It was my first trip back to Goa. Twenty years on, and it is still one of my two biggest regrets of mov
The Journey Home
It was a strange, yet somehow very Indian American moment. In January, this year, I was to meet Andy in front of McDonald’s. “The one across the street from
The Man Who Wouldn’t Be King
It was May 1992. Los Angeles was still on fire. Although the tumultuous scene was on our television set in India, it could not have felt any closer to home. The
Of All the Coffee Places
Kya?” “STAR-BUCKS,” my brother-in-law articulated into his mobile phone. The irony was delicious. We were having difficulty finding the newly opened Starb
Sliced Pi
Based on a novel written by a French Canadian and directed by a Taiwanese American, it is a story about the fantastical pairing of a French-named Indian boy and
Quilted Together
On July 15, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco inaugurated the exhibit “Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in In
