Being Muslim, Female and Chic

The artful balance of merging modesty and style.

April 2007

Ask Janina

Janina Gavankar talks about being brown in Hollywood—and being Ms. Dewey.

November 2006

A Change in Customs

Nakasha Ahmad recounts a visit to customs—and ponders how accustomed we’ve become to compromising our civil liberties.

November 2006

Music That’s Not a MySpace Blog

Voxtrot frontman Ramesh Srivastava talks about making music that’s introspective but not depressing, his discovery of bhangra and his bi-cultural identity.

October 2006

A Sari Tale

Shailja Patel uses the saris she inherited from her mother to illustrate the truth of South Asian women’s lives.

October 2006

Getting Under Our Skins

Writer Pooja Makhijani hopes to provoke discourse and dialogue with her anthology of women’s childhood experiences of race in America.

September 2006

Unveiling the Veil

Nakasha Ahmad’s reflections on a much-misunderstood piece of fabric.

September 2006

Bollywood’s Mane Attraction

As a longtime devotee of Bollywood hair, Roxanna Kassam decided to dig beneath the hairsprayed veneer to discover the real story behind Bollywood’s hair stereotypes.

June 2005

Finding a Thoroughly Modern Male

In February, we ran “The (D)evolution of the Desi Dude,” wondering if the progressive South Asian guy exists. But Roxanna Kassam doesn’t believe the outlook is bleak. She offers five tips on how to bag your own thoroughly modern South Asian male.

April 2005

Innocent Abroad

When Nakasha Ahmad spent two years living in her parents’ native Pakistan, she’d never given much thought to her identity. But she found she had a lot to think about.

March 2005
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