by Vibeka Sen | Apr 2, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Culture
If you devote a good portion of your free time to watching TV like me, you may have noticed something — there are a lot more brown men and women looking back at you. And by brown in this case I mean Indian Americans, or Americans of Asian-Indian origin. Our portrayal...
by Vibeka Sen | Mar 11, 2017 | Politics
The killing of Srinivas Kuchibhotla in Olathe, Kansas hit close to home for many of us. It’s tempting to assuage our concerns by labeling the shooting as an outlier incident in a conservative “red” state. But I keep coming back to two questions posed by Srinivas’s...
by Vibeka Sen | Jun 7, 2015 | Perspectives
If you walk around our house and peek into our closets, you will find that five out of the six closets are filled with my clothes. It’s not because I am a shopaholic. Or because I hoard clothes … 20 years of cohabitating with a “serial purger” wears out the...
