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EVOKE Featured Artist of the Day: SaiQa
SaiQa is the pen name of Saba Waheed. She is an LA-based writer and performer. Her writing has appeared in Hyphen Magazine, SAMAR Magazine and in the anthology SALT (South Asian Literary Thing). She p… more →
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On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman + Author Interview
wrote 2 weeks ago: Allow me to start with the simple end: Ru Freeman’s On Sal Mal Lane is stupendous. I’ll … more →
08: SotA and SAADA
wrote 1 month ago: Listen HERE or subscribe to our iTunes feed! Sound of the Archives meets South Asian American Digita … more →
EVOKE Featured Artist of the Day: SaiQa
wrote 2 months ago: SaiQa is the pen name of Saba Waheed. She is an LA-based writer and performer. Her writing has appea … more →
EVOKE Featured Artist of the Day: Ami Patel
wrote 2 months ago: Ami Patel is a queer South Asian American woman currently based in Los Angeles. She is first and for … more →
EVOKE Featured Artist of the Day: Shyamala Moorty
wrote 2 months ago: Shyamala Moorty is a choreographer, interdisciplinary performance artist, and facilitator who is ded … more →
EVOKE Featured Artist of the Day: Puja Mohindra
wrote 2 months ago: Puja Mohindra, a Chicago native, is an actor and writer based out of Los Angeles. She is a graduate … more →
EVOKE Featured Artist of the Day: Cynthia Ling Lee
wrote 2 months ago: Cynthia Ling Lee instigates thoughtful, friction-filled dialogues between American postmodern dance … more →
EVOKE Featured Artist of the Day: Snehal Desai
wrote 2 months ago: Snehal Desai is the inaugural recipient of the Drama League’s Classical Directing Fellowship. … more →
EVOKE Featured Artist of the Day: Kamaljeet Ahluwalia
wrote 2 months ago: Kamaljeet Ahluwalia is part of the new wave of Asian musicians emerging from the UK. A disciple of t … more →
EVOKE Featured Artist of the Day: Jas Ahluwalia
wrote 2 months ago: Jas Ahluwalia was born in North America and from a very early age was deeply attracted to the unique … more →
The City of Devi by Manil Suri + Author Interview
wrote 3 months ago: Let’s go back about seven years. So a writer walks into a bar. It’s dark, but thankfully … more →
Submissions Deadline for EVOKE Extended!
wrote 3 months ago: Last year’s inaugural installation of EVOKE New Works Festival’s performers and Director … more →
The No-Dogs-Allowed Rule by Kashmira Sheth, illustrated by Carl Pearce
wrote 9 months ago: Ishan Mehra has CDS … that is, Canine Deficiency Syndrome. More than anything in the world, he … more →
Comedian Hari Kondabolu
wrote 10 months ago: Comedian Hari Kondabolu has appeared on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham and John Oliver’s New … more →
Aerogrammes and Other Stories by Tania James
wrote 10 months ago: Thankfully, ‘sophomore slump’ is not part of Tania James‘ vocabulary. In … more →
Gods without Men by Hari Kunzru
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wrote 12 months ago: Most of the time, I love stories that require fitting together seemingly disjointed pieces; my brain … more →
American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
wrote 1 year ago: In a sentence, American Dervish is about a young boy’s indoctrination into Islam – the re … more →
Anupama Jain: How to be South Asian in America
wrote 1 year ago: Anupama Jain, professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, recently published her debut boo … more →
The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai
wrote 1 year ago: How silly of me for waiting so long to read this, the venerable Anita Desai’s latest, when I … more →
