#bramptongirls
Posted by Anupa in Canada, Ethnic Aisle, Pop Culture, Race, Toronto, Twitter on 20. Sep, 2011 | 1 Comment
Did you see this in the top 10 trending topics for Toronto last week? It was there for THREE days, you guys. That’s on some London Riots or Egypt-type shit. As a member of the #bramptongirls tribe (shout out Springdale!) the hashtag fascinated me. “#BramptonGirls is trending. tears of joy,” I tweeted. That got me [...]
Caught out there: a Canadian living and working in Indian fashion
Posted by Anupa in Canada, Ethnic Aisle, fashion, Race, Toronto on 22. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
My friend, and fellow Bramptonian, Preet Nirwal (that’s her up there!) has lived in India for the large majority of the past five years. Just after her homecoming to Toronto this summer, she set up shop at Harbourfront Centre’s artist’s market to sell a few lovely pieces of clothing crafted in India from local, heritage [...]
What’s beef?
Posted by Anupa in Ethnic Aisle, Food, Travel on 21. Jul, 2011 | 1 Comment
Visiting India as a 13-year-old was a nightmare realized. Bad things happened: being groped by skeezed-out men in crowded places, disembarking a congested train by jumping as it pulled away from the platform, traveler’s diarrhea, seeing a giant cockroach in a hotel bathroom (my first roach!), getting a bag of chips snatched from my hand [...]
Q&A: Vijay Iyer on jazz, privileged prodigies, and “Indian-American”
Posted by Anupa in Ethnic Aisle, Interviews, Music, Race on 27. Jun, 2011 | 4 Comments
Jazz pianist Vijay Iyer is a Yale mathematics graduate who also holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Technology and the Arts. This might seem slightly incongruous until you read the title of his 1998 dissertation, according to Wikipedia: Macrostructures of Sound: Embodied Cognition in West African and African-American Musics. There’s a real cerebral element [...]
IIFA coverage: we deserve better!
Posted by Anupa in Canada, Ethnic Aisle, media, Pop Culture, Race on 22. Jun, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’ve mostly been pleasantly surprised over the past week to see mainstream coverage of the International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA), taking place in Toronto this weekend. Rumour has it we beat out New York for the chance to host the star studded, nomadic, diaspora-chasing ceremony and we’ve all heard the stories about Bollywood being [...]
