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Finding Nostalgia in Diasporic Film
Immigrant nostalgia is a Hydra—a lashing, many-headed thing made of grief.
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Who Gets to Tell Stories About India and Its People?
India for white filmmakers is a place in their imagination.
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‘The Namesake’ and The Stories We Tell About Our Parents
There is something resplendent in the stories of our parents.
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On ‘Mississippi Masala’ and the Politics of Desire
They were a two-sided awakening for me; a bi-panic-inducing pairing.
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The Fraught Identity of ‘Where’s the Party Yaar’
I get the melancholic task of laughing through my grief.
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The Women Who Don’t Bend in ‘Bend It Like Beckham’
The film contains a pantheon of archetypes, all of them represented in these Indian Panjabi women.