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The Noughties Were Shit

nikeshshukla wrote 1 week ago: My good friend Simon from The Indelicates has started a blog called The Noughties Were Shit I agree. … more →

Tags: Culture, The Indelicates, The Strokes, MICACHU, Girls Aloud, the noughties were shit, Dave Eggers, joshua ferris, then we came to an end

The False Appropriation Of A Nebulous Category: The Desi Conceit1 comment

noompa wrote 1 week ago: I read Mary Patillo-McCoy’s Black Picket Fences a couple of weeks back; the book is a fascinat … more →

Tags: Origin of Species, 26.11., abcd, Black Picket Fences, Bombay, Desi, Diwali, Mary Patillo-McCoy, mumbai

A conversation with a literary agent

nikeshshukla wrote 2 weeks ago: I’m paraphrasing a little, but last week, I met for the first time an agent who I know through … more →

Tags: coconut unlimited, Literature, writing, Asian genre fiction, aspiring writers, inbetweeners, literary agents, Manuscripts, rotters club

Two new poems

nikeshshukla wrote 2 weeks ago: … more →

Tags: coconut unlimited, Gigging?, nerds I wish I was, writing, dance rcraze sensations, Levi Roots, Nikesh Shukla, reggae reggae, reggae reggae meerkat

The Afronista Rants #1: Move Your Goddamn Cart

ischeherazade wrote 3 weeks ago: As my readers and intimate friends well know, I suffer greatly from an identity crisis.  Half the ti … more →

Tags: African-American, black american, Racist, racism, Black in America, Race, Race issues, Black People, African-Americans

Immigrants and expedients #33 party banter

nikeshshukla wrote 1 month ago: Dear bigot man, Why do you insist on talking freely about your bigoted ways to strangers at a party? … more →

Tags: Journal, weird Britain

Poetrician

nikeshshukla wrote 2 months ago: I used to stand up for the poor call centre chappies sat in Pune or Bangalore sitting through scream … more →

Tags: Journal, Travel

Anthem for the NRI Complex

noompa wrote 2 months ago: “I officially received my American passport the other day.” “So, when you now say … more →

Tags: Origin of Species, postcolonial, Fanon, NRI, Indian Diaspora, namesake, identity, abcd

Immigrants and Expedients #32

nikeshshukla wrote 2 months ago: I grew up in London. Well, a London borough: Harrow>>> well, Pinner to be more specific. Bu … more →

Tags: writing, Journal, Electric Picnic, Book Club Boutique, Tourism, Scotland, Crying Girls, chinese food, DAUNTS

Utterly Coconutty

nikeshshukla wrote 2 months ago: It’s been a crazy-time busy August and I’m only halfway through telling you about last m … more →

Tags: writing, Literature, Journal, Vee Kay, coconut unlimited, Salena Godden, Electric Picnic, Book Club Boutique

I think if you're a bird, I'm not...2 comments

Nic wrote 3 months ago: I haven’t uploaded a lot of my latest work (and by latest I mean my last semester of school). … more →

Tags: Printmaking, canary, Monotype, screen print, woodcut, woodpecker

Lexicons and pros

nikeshshukla wrote 4 months ago: I visited my granddad and struggled to communicate with him. I used to be the only one of my male co … more →

Tags: writing, Literature, Journal, language, Nikesh Shukla, Author, cultural identity, gujarati, Esperanto

Not good enough?2 comments

multiculturalwannabe wrote 9 months ago: Sometimes I’m thinking that I should be more like other people. It’s not like I really w … more →

The Indian citizenship

multiculturalwannabe wrote 10 months ago: Actually I don’t know if it’s still there or not, if I’m having double citizenship … more →

Tags: Islamic Issues

No more identity crisis?2 comments

multiculturalwannabe wrote 10 months ago: I’m feeling kind of old when I’m reading the diary I wrote one year ago. The only thing … more →

Chess and identity

gringarusamexicana wrote 10 months ago: Like a good Russian (Jew), my dad really enjoys playing chess and though he doesn’t do it as m … more →

Tags: Immigration, Soviet Jews, Belarussian Jews, Anti=American

A major case of owner-inflicted species identity issues

Karen wrote 10 months ago: Bird dogs! Just wait until you see what Ellie and I do to Homer… Via Nag on the Lake … more →

Tags: Dogs, bad ideas, crafty, Birds

Vad då "Befria Palestina"?2 comments

multiculturalwannabe wrote 10 months ago: Idag när när jag var i centrum här i Växjö såg jag att att den palestinska flaggan var uppsatt inuti … more →

Tags: Israel and Palestine, Israel and Palesti

Har ingen rubrik!

multiculturalwannabe wrote 10 months ago: Jag är helt slut, men det kan bero på att jag borde gå och lägga mig. Jag borde sluta tänka på Israe … more →

Tags: Israel and Palestine


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