Podcasts

The Lonely Goat Cafe: This podcast explores the idea of loneliness in the context of migration, and how immigrants use music, art, films, literature and other creative means to move through it. 

• Poetry and the trauma of migration with MT Vallarta
• Why Dian Sousa loves the sea

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Issues and Ideas (Podcast, KCBX Central Coast Public Radio): As producer, I focused on bringing diverse voices from the Central Coast to speak on a range of issues, from justice and rights to local businesses and nonprofit initiatives.

• An interview with Professor Jared Van Ramshorst on international students’ visa revocations
• An interview with members of Mothers for Peace and their advocacy around the closure of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant
• An interview with Ethnic Studies professor Mario Espinoza-Kulick about the concerns of undocumented immigrants living on the Central Coast

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Last Book Alive: Currently on hiatus, this podcast discussed works of litrary fiction from around the world. The last few episodes were dedicated to Palestinian literature.

• “There’s Gunpowder In the Air” by Manoranjan Byapari, with Pheroze Vincent
• “All that’s left to you” by Ghassan Kanafani, with Rim Aljabi
• “Ring Shout” by P. Djeli Clark, with Slammer

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Journalism

Investigations

• The Indian companies arming Israel’s military establishments (Maktoob Media)
• AMU Protests: Detained students released; protestors recall night of terror (Two Circles)
• An Uncertain Refuge: The fate of the Rohingyas in India (The Wire)
• Smart City plans hit Aligarh’s small businesses (Citizen Matters)

Features

• “It’s our kuleana” (Radio Pacifica)
• A week after protests, AMU keeps peaceful dissent alive (Two Circles)
• Deportation Fears Turn Rohingya Community Leaders Into Refugee Negotiators (The Wire)
• A House for Mr. Vyas (The Hindu Business Line)
• The Matri-Makers of Aligarh (Two Circles)

Photo Essays

• People and Homes of Aligarh (Himal Southasian)
• “Wherever a person lives, he ends up belonging there”: A Brief Anecdotal History of Upar Kot (Marg Magazine)

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Fiction

• The Old Woman (Storm Cellar)
• A-88 (Storm Cellar)
• The Visit (Newfound)

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