South Asian Americans

Comedian Hari Kondabolu on punching up and kicking down

By Simran Jeet Singh — November 5, 2019
(RNS) — Hari Kondabolu might be the only comic in the world with a Netflix special and a graduate degree in human rights.

Comedian Hari Kondabolu on punching up and kicking down

By Simran Jeet Singh — November 5, 2019
(RNS) — Hari Kondabolu might be the only comic in the world with a Netflix special and a graduate degree in human rights.

How South Asian Americans are reckoning with Partition’s legacy 72 years later

By Harmeet Kamboj — August 14, 2019
(RNS) — While we often talk about the calamity of 9/11, it's impossible to ignore the legacy of the 1947 Partition of India, whose 72nd anniversary is this week, in the sometimes troubled relations between South Asian American communities today.

Meet Sadaf Jaffer, America’s first female Muslim mayor

By Simran Jeet Singh — February 14, 2019
(RNS) — 'I hope my example helps provide a different vision of what it means to be a Muslim woman in America today,' she says.
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