Written By: Aditya Sharma This article may contain spoilers. Growing up as a gay kid in the Bay Area, Alex Liu was fighting to understand his sexual identity. “Until I was 18 I was deathly afraid, so terrified of this part of m ...
Ashish Pant’s ‘The Knot’ explores what happens when India’s social bubbles are broken
Written By: Aditya Sharma This article may contain spoilers. Ashish Pant was driving with his father and sister through the city of Lucknow in northern India when they got into an accident with a scooter driver who had run a red light. He was on ...
Anne Hu’s love letter to her mother is a quintessential Asian American story
Written By: Aditya Sharma If you are the child of immigrants who grew up in the United States, odds are you have experienced a lunchbox moment. Odds are that the food you brought looks, smells and tastes different (read: better). But the feeling of ...
‘Raya and The Last Dragon’ is a fierce and beautiful call for healing
Written By: Aditya Sharma Disney’s “Raya and The Last Dragon” is a vivid and thrilling romp through a world that’s both ancient and thoroughly fresh. In Kumandra, a land of rivers, islands and peninsulas that resembles just enough of each corner of Sout ...
‘The White Tiger’: A rags-to-revenge story
Written By: Aditya Sharma Disclaimer: spoilers ahead! In the first two minutes of Netflix’s “The White Tiger” we hear the opening to Punjabi MC and Jay-Z’s “Beware of The Boys” and see a man dressed as a Maharajah swerve out of the way of an oncom ...