Women in India

Here are my novel summary statements, following Sandra Scofield’s directions: About This novel is “about” what happens when a modern…

Malini Jeevarathnam, a 28 year old and courageous film director in Tollywood (the Tamil version of Bollywood), has released a…

I agree heartily with Jabeen Akhtar (See her very well-written article “Why Am I Brown? South Asian Fiction and Pandering…

There’s a proliferation of Indian and other South Asian literary novels published in the West, mostly written by writers of…

Good news in fall 2018- the Indian Supreme Court announced its decision to REVERSE ITSELF and declare Section 377 unconstitutional. …

I was horrified during my 2012 trip to India to learn that some Indian parents will kill their own children…

Satyam, a South Indian law student, is faced with the murder of her beloved cousin, who has been poisoned by…

I continue to struggle with the national conversation about white writers and appropriation. The argument goes like this: whites either…

RAISING SOUTH ASIAN VOICES: ONE STORY AT A TIME