by Sagaree Jain | Jan 5, 2019 | Culture
I lived ten years in texas sun, singeing my brown body. today’s paper, leaking red, a bloody tapestry. “rawalpindi,” says my mother. and she drips into her sink. I churn to know. from where she hears. these brown bodies sing. It whistles through me when she mourns. a...
by Sagaree Jain | Jun 30, 2018 | Politics
Auntie, I feel like I grew up with you. When I pass you in the street or see you in the spice store, I feel like you’re one of the people who saw me grow up, kept my welfare close to your heart, and had an unspoken authority in my community. I grew up in one of the...
by Sagaree Jain | Jul 11, 2015 | Entertainment, Films
MISS INDIA AMERICA. Director: Ravi Kapoor. Writers: Ravi Kapoor and Meera Simhan. Players: Tiya Sircar, Hannah Simone, Kosha Patel, Meera Simhan, Bernard White. Producers: Megha Kadakia and Saurabh K. Ravi Kapoor’s 2014 Miss India America opens on a comfortably...
by Sagaree Jain | Mar 9, 2015 | Features, Youth
“Then where you are from?” I was asked this question on my second day with Etasha Society, as I observed a class on Spoken English at the Mori Gate center in North Delhi. Eight or nine trainees, probably around my own nineteen years, sat around the edges of the room...
