“No one is free until we are all free.” Dr. King’s words continue to be a powerful message for South Asians throughout the U.S. Over the past month and a half, our country has been jolted by recent acts of violence against black folks. While systemic injustice and...
“If they’re illegal, they don’t deserve to stay.” My mouth dropped as I heard these words from one of my relatives, an immigrant himself. My family emigrated to the United States from India about 30 years ago. They were fortunate enough to have been able to stay. ...
“These are unprecedented times…” is probably the beginning of every email that you’ve written, received, or been forwarded over the course of the last month. While our lives have surely been changed, our day-to-day schedule in quarantine largely looks, well, pretty...
Stories of plight, of unrequited love, of untold history are the threads that stitch the seams of our ever-expanding world. These are the narratives that empower us to learn and to empathize with small tales of astronomical weight. This has become Paras Borgohain’s...
It was 7 am on a rainy winter morning in California. My dad had forgotten to buy milk the previous night. Fearing my mother’s wrath, he rushed to the grocery store. He approached those all-to-familiar automatic doors, did his a jig to activate the sensors, but the...
