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- Aarakshan: Caste and Quotas
- Adulthood. Are we there yet?
- “All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.” Jane Austen
- Amitabh Bachchan in The Great Gatsby
- Apologies, Friends
- Baby Fever, Desi Style
- Backtracking from “Cultured” to “Whitewashed”
- Break up? You just wasted your precious baby-making years.
- #BrownGirlProblems
- #CanWeTalkAboutThis
- Career Pariahs
- The Caste System
- Celebrating the Awkward Years
- Chanel Pays Homage to India
- A “Cocktail”of Reinforced Double Standards in India
- Comic Books: From Amar Chitra Katha to Marvel
- Competitive Intolerance (& Hindu Apologists?)
- Crossing the Taboo Vortex: The Birds and The Bees
- Dappan Koothu and a Dose of Rajnikanth
- Desi Bitches
- Desi Parents Keepin it Real. Too Real.
- The Desi Brother
- The Desi Black Omen: Not Being “Normal”
- Desi Disintegration
- Desis & Homosexuality
- Desi Rishtas 4Lyfe
- Ek Main aur Ekk Tu
- Epiphany…
- The Evolution of Bollywood Love/Sex
- Fair and Lovely, Fair and Handsome
- From the Kitchen Shelf to Your Medicine Cabinet
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Desi Style.
- Happy Ramadan!
- Hinna Rabbani Khar: and Not-So-Sure Optimism
- Hindu? If You Say So
- Hinduism Evolved
- The Hindu Right and Anti-Muslim Sentiments: Let’s Back Up
- The Hindu Right, Feminism, and Females
- Human Anatomy for Dummies (techies)
- I Am Thankful for Vidya!
- Identity Crisis
- Identity Politics
- “If You Disagree with Me, then You Disagree with Allah”
- I’ll have what my parents had: All love, no religious conflict.
- Incredible India, or rather, Imagined India
- “Indian Girl: Still Single and Spirited”
- Indo-Mexican
- In Two Minds
- Keeping it Real
- A Letter to Amanat
- A Little Pick-Me-Up
- Makeshift Monday: Goldspot
- Marriage Beyond “Biodata”
- Married/Unmarried Ageism Dichotomy
- Meaningless Monday: behind on bollywood
- Meaningless Monday: kalidars and anarkalis
- Misogyny at its Finest
- Motley Monday: 5 Tips for The Still Feeling Unseasoned Traveler
- Motley Monday: 90s Desi “Amreekan” Nostalgia
- Motley Monday: Akshay Kumar as a Ninja
- Motley Monday: Amitabh Bachchan Back to Good Health
- Motley Monday: Bollywood Meets Top 40 Pop
- Motley Monday: Borrowing Beats
- Motley Monday: Bunty & Bubbly Tuesday
- Motley Monday: Champions at home
- Motley Monday: Daring Pakistani Faces of Music
- Motley Monday: Delhi Belly
- Motley Monday: Desi College Campus Groovin’
- Motley Monday: Facebook Hate Mongering – The Case of Asma Jahangir
- Motley Monday: Got your back?
- Motley Monday: Happy Diwalloween!
- Motley Monday: Jeff Buckley on Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Motley Monday: Kameezing from Short to Long
- Motley Monday: Liberal and Conservative Morality
- Motley Monday: My Bhangra Classics
- Motley Monday: “Nadia Al Sakkaf, See Yemen Through My Eyes”
- Motley Monday: Nail Cutter, Weapon of Choice
- Motley Monday: Netflix Foreign Film Exploration
- Motley Monday: old school Aamir Khan
- Motley Monday: Once Upon a Time in Mumbai
- Motley Monday: Shubh Navratri
- Motley Monday: Sita Sings the Blues
- Motley Monday: South Indians and Sufism
- Motley Monday: Tapori Speech 101
- Motley Monday: “That Time of Month”
- Motley Monday: Things I Would Tell My Younger Self
- Motley Monday: Two Mangoes
- Motley Monday: watercolor prints
- Motley Monday: where are those Pakistani musicians now?
- Motley Monday: Why this Kolaveri Di?
- Motley Monday: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara…a Feminist Heroine and Other Musings
- My Mother Just Asked Permission To Take Over My Love Life
- My Ode to Traveling
- On Barfi and Unrequited Love
- Partition: From The Motherland to The Melting Pots
- Please, Karachi Mayhemers – Don’t Shoot The “Doodh-Patti” Chai
- Political Hindu
- The Politics of Kinship
- The Potentially Gay Brother
- R^3 = Raj Rajesh Rajendra
- Rebellion is in my blood, etched into my DNA, and the moment I stopped resisting this truth, I was free.
- Regarding The Touchy Feelies (NSFW)
- Relationships and Such
- Salaam Bombay
- Satyamev Jayate
- Sigh
- “Silence is the Language of God, All Else is Poor Translation”
- “Sinners” Deserve What They Get
- Slut Shaming – Contextualizing the BuzzWord
- South Asian ≠ Less Muslim
- Spiritual Tourism – New Age Orientalism?
- Summer Makeup: Playing with Color
- Tepid Tuesday: Pre-Med because of Parents?
- Tirupati: The World’s Richest Temple
- What’s the Use of Stories that Aren’t True?
- What Would Tim Tebow Do?
- Woe is Me