Yesterday morning, I got a call from my friend Anurag. After making a few jokes about a ridiculously long text he had sent me the day before and confirming dinner plans for later this month, he then asked me, “Have you heard about Amit Gupta?”. Now as far as Indian names go, Amit Gupta is [...]
I recently spoke at the University of Missouri-Kansas City about the effects of cultural on perspective and identity. On the surface, this topic is fairly obtuse- of course culture shapes our perspctive. However, it is surprising how deeply it affects the way we function in the world, and also how we process information. Moreover, diversity [...]
Every year during this time you’ll find Indian homes preparing for the holiday by making large quantities of sweets, purchasing gifts and flowers, and arranging pictures or statues of deities.
Ean Williams, Executive Director of DC Fashion Week
If someone had told you there is a fashion designer who once worked on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope project, you might assume that it was for uniform design. Or if you had heard that an NSA intelligence analyst for the U.S. Airforce had designed his own collection you [...]
Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.—Oscar Handlin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, 1951#
A plane lands at JFK airport on a cloudy day in New York. Off the plane shuffles a young man and woman delicately balancing their small child and luggage with excitement and apprehension
