Native Americans have often held members of the LGBTQ+ family in high regard, and the most common term to define gender-fluid people today is to refer to them as 'Two-Spirit' people. Rather than the physical body, Native Americans emphasized a… Read more

Jyoti Rajan Gopal, a children's book author, recently published a book titled My Paati's Saris. In the interview below, she told us about her inspirations for the book, and for her writing in general. 1.Tell us a little bit about your background… Read more

The role of Indian-Americans is often neglected when it comes to the LGBTQ movement in the US, despite the significant presence of the diaspora and India's rich history of LGBTQ acceptance. Gender fluidity was a recognized concept in ancient India.… Read more

The optimal relationship between the public sector and civil society—and more specifically, between government and charitable organizations often called nongovernment organizations or NGOs—has been analyzed and debated extensively, both in the United States, in India, and beyond.  One traditional role… Read more

The trend towards effective altruism argues for a high level of monitoring and evaluation, and backing charitable dollars with hard data analytics that conveys high impact. This approach, however, fails to account for the nuance of less-measurable outcomes and the… Read more

On a visit to an orphanage in Shillong, Meghalaya, Sunil Mathew watched closely as a boy atop a tall jackfruit tree shook a large, heavy fruit. As the boy, Klingson Mara clambered down quickly and gracefully, Mathew was astounded to… Read more

This Fall EnActe Arts is opening its most ambitious production to date - THE JUNGLE BOOK:RUDYARD REVISED When Indiaspora member Vinita Belani founded Enacte Arts in 2013 to bring Jean-Claude Carriere's legendary re-telling of the Mahabharata to American audiences, she… Read more

The Shehnai Virtuoso and Other Stories by Dhumketu, translated from Gujarati into English by Jenny Bhatt, is the first book-length translation from Gujarati to English published in the US, despite the large population of Gujarati diaspora in the country. Below is a… Read more

When most of us think of children without families, we visualize young children (adorable and heart-wrenching) living in some kind of institutional care.  We see the need to give them good options for shelter and education, but don’t give a… Read more

As I look back at my comedy calendar for June, it feels surreal and funny that I’m a stand up comedian. You don’t see a lot of people like me in comedy. An Indian immigrant woman, who is queer, and… Read more