Quick Picks: Writer, Activist and Engineer Sangamithra Iyer
(Photo/Wan Park) We’re asking different writers, artists and others to share some of their current favorites. This week we feature picks from writer, activist and engineer Sangamithra Iyer who is the...
View ArticleQuick Picks: ‘Anderson Cooper 360’ Editorial Producer Devna Shukla
Photo credit: Devna Shukla We’re asking different writers, artists and others to share some of their current favorites. This week we feature picks from Devna Shukla, an editorial producer for CNN’s...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Comedian Aparna Nancherla Loves ‘Broad City’
This week we feature the current favorites of comedian Aparna Nancherla. She recently wrote for and sometimes appeared on the late, great TV series Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Other credits...
View ArticleQuick Picks: ‘Ranjit Singh’ Trilogy Author A.X. Ahmad
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of A.X. Ahmad. He is the author of The Caretaker, the first in a trilogy featuring ex-Indian Army Captain Ranjit Singh. His second book, The...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Cosmetics & New Media Creative Suresh Seneviratne
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of cosmetics and new media creative Suresh Seneviratne. Since 1999, Suresh has worked on makeup projects for celebrities, runway shows, fashion...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Writer & Deca Co-Founder Sonia Faleiro
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Sonia Faleiro. She is the author of two books, including Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars, The Sunday Times...
View ArticleQuick Picks: ‘Cowboys and East Indians’ Author Nina McConigley
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Nina McConigley, the author of the short-story collection Cowboys and East Indians, which is currently on the shortlist for the PEN/Open...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Sumana ‘DJ Sumie’ Murthy
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Sumana ‘DJ Sumie’ Murthy who threw iPod dance parties in her college dorm room and quickly realized her knack for getting the crowd on the...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Author Prajwal Parajuly
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Prajwal Parajuly, the author of The Gurkha’s Daughter, a collection of short stories. (Read one of the stories in this excerpt on The...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Portland’s Dance Missionary & DJ Anjali
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of DJ Anjali. With a name like Gitanjali (song offering) you’d think she was born to play records. Made in India and born in Oregon, Anjali...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Journalist & Author Anjan Sundaram
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of journalist and author Anjan Sundaram. Sundaram is the author of Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo, which has been optioned for a...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Filmmaker, Playwright, Performance Artist & ASL Poet Sabina England
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Sabina England, a filmmaker, playwright, performance artist and ASL poet based in the Midwest. Her first narrative film Wedding Night (2010)...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Journalist, Author and #WeNeedDiverseBooks VP Sona Charaipotra
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Sona Charaipotra, a journalist and author who’s written for everyone from the New York Times to Teen Vogue. The co-founder of CAKE Literary,...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Writer & Journalist Rumnique Nannar
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Rumnique Nannar, communications coordinator at the Wilderness Committee and a writer, whose work has appeared in Buzzfeed India, Jugni...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Research Director & Podcaster Sheela Lal
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Sheela Lal, who has been working in Missouri’s progressive political sphere for the better part of five years. She’s also invested[...] The...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Writer & Editor Shoaib Alam
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Shoaib Alam, who moved back home with his parents last month, took over his sister’s old room, and promptly threw[...] The post Quick Picks:...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Cartoonist, Writer & Performance Artist Vishavjit Singh
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Vishavjit Singh, a New York City based cartoonist, writer, performance artist and creator of www.Sikhtoons.com, who travels across the U.S....
View ArticleQuick Picks: Analyst & Part-Time Amateur Historian A. Yerramilli
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of A. Yerramilli, a business analyst and part-time amateur historian with a severe wanderlust (for ancient ruins in particular) currently...
View ArticleQuick Picks: Pop Librarian & Storyteller Rekha Kuver
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Rekha Kuver, a librarian, storyteller, writer, friend, daughter, partner, sister, and above all, cool aunty. She blogs about her life[...]...
View ArticleQuick Picks: User Experience Designer Upma Singh
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Upma Singh who lives in West Philadelphia with her husband and two cats. She aims to design better websites, products[...] The post Quick...
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