Newly arrived to America, from the ethnocentric post-doc community of Canada, was like being thrown in a pile of snow. “Report to the library to talk to the reporter about Martin Luther King Jr.,” my…Continue Reading
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Wordless Wednesday: The World is a Pigmentocracy
Driving in gridlocked traffic earlier in the week, a BBC Worldservice piece on pigmentocracy in Martinique resonated with me. People prefer lighter skin not only in the Caribbean but in all the former colonies. This…Continue Reading
Wordless Wednesday: An Unlikely Goddess
This trailer is for the first book I ever tried to write. But it appears as my fourth published novel. What happens when My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets The Namesake? You get a young South Asian girl,…Continue Reading