Most recently I had the opportunity to play a live music show with SAJAL at Trident Cafe. My friends Amruta, Jupiter, Ankur, Laura and I started an improvised music group called SAJAL that formed from our frequent jam sessions. Amruta and Ankur, being multitalented, had their artwork on display at Trident. To celebrate their artwork…

Today, I embarked from the city of Trivandram heading to Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala on what I hope will be a fruitful one month training program in the ancient martial art form of kalaripayattu.  I arrived at the Kochuvelli station a half hour early and fortunately since the train’s route began at Kochuvelli I was able…

Sangeeta Raju How much unpacking we have to do as South Asian women to find our light. I can say that the Black Lives Matter movement was my initiation into a real education on race and unpacking my own relationship with it. It was not something I had personally been asked to confront until this…

Faith and a righteous path are taken very literally in the idea of living life a certain way for fear that the alternative will lead to condemnation. Quite honestly in our Western world faith is seen as dangerous and wrong and associated with a person who has lost sense of reality. This is not how…