*This post of mine is also published on Forbes Woman.* Despite seeing her face plastered on billboards across the country all summer, every Sunday evening when I tune into ABC’s hit show, Quantico, watching Bollywood star, Priyanka Chopra as the lead character still gives me goosebumps. After almost a decade in the US as a South Asian […]
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A series of apparently endless attacks on secular writers in Bangladesh continue to rock the nation & the world. After publishing my piece on the murders in The Daily Beast, I went on HuffPost Live to analyze what the deaths mean in the larger context of regional politics & Bangladeshi identity. There are so many
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*This post of mine was also published on The Daily Beast.* A spate of assaults confirms that secular Bangladeshi bloggers, and apparently those who dare to publish their work, are very much under attack in the one of the world’s most populated Muslim countries. Yesterday, two separate violent attacks on the lives of publishers and
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If you spend any time online then you know that when it comes to US Supreme Court Justices perhaps none are as revered as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or as the Internet lovingly refers to her, the “Notorious RGB.” Authors of the new book on the Justice, Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik joined HuffPost Live host,
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*This post of mine was also published on Forbes Woman:* As a child of Punjabi immigrants growing up in Buckinghamshire in the 1970s, Anjula Acharia-Bath was taunted with racist bullying from her peers. Now the founder of DesiHits! is a new partner at venture capital firm Trinity Ventures and a go-to for connecting Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
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As mass shooting after mass shooting continues to take place in the US, I worry that the violence will soon become a part of our daily lives, something we will grow to get used to. It’s already happening. There were two separate shootings Friday morning. Americans barely blinked. Mass shootings was just one of the
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*This post of mine was also published on The New York Times/Women in the World.* Artists trying to break into the American market would do well to study how Priyanka Chopra made it happen. The Bollywood icon’s U.S. TV drama, Quantico, debuted last week on ABC to strong reviews across the board, becoming the network’s
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If you feel like you are having political deja vu with the Republicans going after Planned Parenthood yet again, you are forgiven. This week as Planned Parenthood President, Cecile Richards testified on Capitol Hill against the heavily edited tapes against her organization and fetal tissue donation, once against the GOP called for the government to
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As hard as you try, sadly the anti-Muslim rhetoric from GOP Presidential candidates just won’t die down, with Ben Carson now joining the road filled with racist language, a tactic pioneered in this case by Trump. I joined CNN on Sunday to give my thoughts on the entertainment of politics or the politics of entertainment
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*This post of mine is also published on The New York Times/Women in the World.* In a year that has seen secular bloggers hacked to death in broad daylight, progressive voices in Bangladesh made a bold move this month to spotlight the plight of homosexuals in the country by launching Dhee, the country’s first lesbian
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