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• Partition: From The Motherland to The Melting Pots

  

  Despite the sadness around partition, I am always drawn to the history, and more importantly the narratives around it. So much of partition history is buried... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2011 SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Motley (not So) Monday: Netflix Foreign Film Exploration

  

  It’s been a while, but grad school just does that to you. We apologize for our much longer than usual hiatus of non-Motley Monday posts, but we sure keep this... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2011 SELF EXPRESSION

• Motley Monday: Things I Would Tell My Younger Self

  

  Dear readers, I am about a month shy from reaching a landmark birthday. 25. The quarter of a century birthday. The, oh shit you’re old birthday. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2011 SELF EXPRESSION

• Motley Monday: Happy Diwalloween!

  

  I was so excited that maybe I was the first to coin the term….but alas, ‘Googling’ showed me otherwise.   Diwali …Continue reading » Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2011 SELF EXPRESSION

• Motley Monday: Sita Sings the Blues

  

  This Motley Monday is kind of a precursor to my next post (actually the first of a series of three related posts) so I hope you watch the following video and... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2011 SELF EXPRESSION

• Aarakshan: Caste & Quotas

  

  Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Manoj Bajpai, and some dude that looks familiar but ehDisclaimer: This is not really a review. Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2011 SELF EXPRESSION

• Motley Monday: Jeff Buckley on Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Jeff Buckley People don’t listen to world music enough. Music transcends cultural, even language barriers, yet too many of us don’t... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2011 SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY