yesha
I am a curious person, and so my favorite thing to do is learn, and I find things to learn and people to teach me wherever I go. Whether it's the middle school children I have worked with or my Bharata Natyam guru, I find that *everyone* has something valuable to teach.
Recently I have discovered a passion for learning more about folklore, writing, and performance, and I'm interested in pursuing graduate work studying the area where these three intersect. I love to perform on stage, whether in my own comic monologues, or in amateur plays. It's a pleasure to be exploring the world of podcasting, as it combines all of my loves--learning, writing, culture, and performance!
I welcome a dynamic dialogue with listeners, so please do share your thoughts and comments on my show--send your mails to generation1.5@gmail.com
Shows
Tasty Conversations with Desis, ABCDs, FOBs, NRIs, ABDs, and Home Growns...
Conversations is a loose term... Just like chutney sandwiches juxtapose unexpected tastes in one piquant morsel, my guests touch on far-ranging subjects, including (but not limited to) poetry and ca...
Thoughts from the wedge generation
I have a theory that between the first generation of Desi immigrants and their American-born children, there is a gray area, a twilight zone, inhabited by Generation One Point Five.This wedge or bridg...
Recent Episodes
Mixed Messages 4
What does it mean... ...to write in a foreign land? ...to be comfortable with contradictions, irresolution? ...to write for oneself, or for the reader? ...to write as a form of deep attention, a...
Mixed Messages 3
What is the role of literary writing in response to political crises? Amitav Ghosh and Vijay Seshadri discuss their thoughts on politicized writing, or, as Vijay Seshadri calls it, "working in the rea...
Mixed Messages 2
The panel discussion that took place between these three was so long and so interesting that I've made it into three separate segments, and this is the first of these three... The discussion star...