Las Cafeteras, the Chicano band from LA, and what I like to think of as
unapologetic political folk music for the soul! They brilliantly mix
traditional son jarocho with contemporary issues. Las Cafeteras hail from the
Zapatista-inspired EastSide Cafe in East LA. Their f...
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Sarika Mehta talks to Nidhi Chanani about her celebrated graphic
novel Pashmina
Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her
home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is
her father, and why did her mom le...
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Sarika Mehta talks to two powerful writers about the intersections of
parenting, gender and race. Both Celeste Ng and Shanthi Sekaran write about
the weight and potential of motherhood.
Celeste Ng
was a recipient of a Pushcart Prize in 2012 for her story Girls, At
Pla...
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Sarika Mehta talks to author Alia Malek about her memoir The Home That Was
Our Country...about Syria's history and contemporary politics through stories
of her own family
from the NYT:
"Alia Malek’s memoir, “The Home That Was Our Country,” is one of the
finest examples...
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Sarika Mehta is joined in studio by Simón Mejía of Bomba
Estéreo! According to Mejía, the band's name (which translates into
English as "stereo bomb") is a Colombian term for "a really cool, awesome,
bad ass party"
The origins of the group go back to 2001 when Bogotá nativ...
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On this LIVE episode of Intersections Radio...host Sarika Mehta talks to
author Rene Denfeld about her writing as well as her advocacy on behalf of
sex trafficking victims and people who are wrongly imprisoned.
THE CHILD FINDER: A haunting, richly atmospheric, and deeply...
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Today Sarika Mehta speaks to Dr. Vanessa Grubbs about her memoir Hundreds of
Interlaced Fingers....later in the show Moazzam Sheikh talks about curating
the South Asian American Issue of the Chicago Quarterly Review.
Vanessa Grubbs - A young, hopeful doctor’s memoir—an u...
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Sandhya Menon is Young Adult romance writer, and one of the very very few
South Asian American writers in the genre. Her debut novel, "When Dimple Met
Rishi" follows the love story of two characters from Gujarati families in the
Bay Area. Sarika and Sandhya talked about ...
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Sarika Mehta welcomes Nina Diaz to the KBOO studio to talk about her music
and her life.
Almost two decades ago, on January 9, 1998, musician Nina Diaz was
heartbroken to learn her grandmother had passed away. Exactly 15 years later,
on that same date, Nina was writing ...
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Guest host Sarika Mehta will be LIVE in studio for this Intersections Radio
episode, with Subashini Ganesan (New Expressive Works) and Amna Mawaz Khan
(Theatre Wallay). Both are Bharatanatyam dancers - Suba is local, and Amna is
from Pakistan. They'll be chatting up this...
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