Ashok Rajamani
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the book, poetry, and select works
the book
the day my brain exploded
"Tarantino via a Burroughs Highway, Splashed with a Massive, Masala Dive into the Bell and Butterfly."
poetry
on sluts, jesus, vulgar darlings, and india
"words, brewed and unbrewed."
essays
carnival grotesque, phallic goddess
"how two female characters in the world's greatest epic stole the show with a carnival and a sex change."
the damned mother and the unnamed other
"Salman Rushdie uncovers the dream that imprisons. "
horseshoe souvenir
"the essay that started it all."
flash fiction
three romances
"stories, thumb-sized."
fiction
how an indian girl became the rightful heir to blond Ambition, or, why an indian woman never quit having blind ambition
"a sari-clad mom tries to ensure that her daughter becomes a hindu Lady Gaga."
BUCKETRY, OR, ON THE COVER OF A MAGAZINE, OR, YOU SAY DEM-EE I SAY DEE-MI
"a boy finds self-adoration in a bath."
HUckleberry Patel
"why on earth would a brown american boy want to be an all-american star?"
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poets & writers
more than just taxi drivers, 7-11 owners, or people with accents who fix your computers over the phone
exit art
Tolstoy, Dickens, Poe...had epilepsy?
south asian journalists association
it's arianna's world, we just live in it
media matters
moving forward to justice
think progress!