Humor—dark, sharp, and often redemptive—permeates this irresistible collection of poems exploring womanhood, family and sexual relationships with the candor of a camera's eye 'blinking to capture one perfect shot.' Preeti Vangani cuts to the heart of each moment like a reporter on the beat; hers is a poetry of the unresolved present and the mercurial future tense. What an extraordinary mind is at work in these pages. —D A POWELL
Devastated by his daughter's suicide, an Indian American entrepreneur embarks on an increasingly frantic quest to find answers. Saila Kariat wrote, directed and co-produced this narrative feature. It was in over twenty film festivals, and won best feature film in four festivals. It was invited to the Mumbai Film Festival.
Roberto Lovato's piece on the Gentrification of Consciousness dissects the class, racial and other challenges lurking just beneath of the "psychedelic renaissance" in San Francisco. The widely-hailed piece is among the most popular to appear in Alta Journal.
n this article, Sarita discusses her mother's belief in science at a time when superstition and belief in quackery reined in India. The article was published by India Currents, a magazine catering to the Indian diaspora worldwide and to mainstream Americans.
