A Memory, 2020
My best memory from 2020 isn’t necessarily my happiest. This year I felt no simple, one-note emotions. And so my best memory is one that encompasses the compl
Samantha Rajaram
Indian American Writer Learns From a 17th Century Dutch Woman
I recently celebrated the cover reveal for my debut novel The Company Daughters: A Heart-Wrenching Colonial Love Story. For me, it was the culmination of a long
Is This America?
Imagine you are a green card holder traveling frequently between the U.S. and your native country. Perhaps you seek cheaper medical treatment in your native cou
Oriental Forays: The Last Gods of Indochine
THE LAST GODS OF INDOCHINE by Samuel Ferrer. 422 pages. Signal 8 Press. Also available as a Kindle ebook. [caption id="attachment_26850" align="alignleft" width
Exaptation
He waits on the corner of Mission and 21st. Their third date. He wears a black shirt, blousy around his paunch. He mentioned in a text that he had ten pounds to
The New Colonialism
My mother completed her pediatric residency in Long Island, New York some 43 years ago, before the era of paid maternity leave. Every year on my birthday, she r
In Defense of Sudden Outsiders
In the past week, I have been thinking about my childhood trips to India. The jet lag—the surreal feeling of leaving one country and waking up in another. Upo
Motherhood and the Gita
I have finally begun reading the Bhagavad Gita, at the age of 36. I’ve known about it for years, of course, but instead chose to read works from the western c
Becoming American
On November 4, 2008, I became an American Although I was born in the United States and have lived here my whole life, I have always considered myself Indian-Ame
