The First Time I Went to India
It was 1994, I was 14-years old and my family decided to spend the winter break in India for my […]
10 South Asian Artists We Have On Repeat
by Guest Blogger Samuel Allen The Kominas With the Kominas, punk politics meets groovy reggae rhythms. The 2015 track “See […]
Dismantling Identities
by Poonam Desai, Psychologist and Author of Everything Mixed with Gold and The Dismantling The act of dismantling is to […]
10 Stats About World Refugee Day
1.) As of December 2000, the United Nations recognizes June 20th as ‘World Refugee Day’ as a time to show […]
Overthinking My Outfits in India
by Chiara Rossi “We warmly encourage our Western guests to wear traditional Indian attire.” I squinted at the words on […]
Zakir Hussain and an Intro to Indian Classical Music
I remember the first time I heard the sound of the tabla. I was sixteen years old and Zakir Hussain was doing a tour with Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar in the mid-to-late 1990s. It was the first time I ever attended a classical Indian music concert and the sound waves washed over me and had me completely mesmerized. At the end of the concert, they were handing out black and white photos of Ravi Shankar and George Harrison of which I then hung up in my locker until the end of my high school career.