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Slide from a security training test used by the US Defense Department and other agencies showing the hypothetical Indian American woman named "Hema." (Source: The Huffington Post)

Free “Hema”

August 15, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

The Huffington Post’s Matt Sledge reports about a security training test created by an agency of the US Defense Department called the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), which gives a profile of a hypothetical Indian American woman (named “Hema”) and, based on rather typical characteristics, instructs trainees to consider her a high security threat: A security training test created by a Defense Department agency warns federal workers that they should consider the hypothetical Indian-American woman a “high threat” because she […]

Categories: Civil Rights • Tags: Defense Information Systems Agency, Hema, Indian American, Matt Sledge, National Security Agency, Racial profiling, The Aerogram, The Huffington Post, United States Department of Defense

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The Caretaker -- a novel by A.X. Ahmad. (Photo source: Target)

A.X. Ahmad’s “The Caretaker”

May 31, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

On the blog Colorlines, Rinku Sen interviews writer A.X. Ahmad whose recently published fictional novel The Caretaker is set in Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts and features a Sikh protagonist named Ranjit Singh, “an undocumented Sikh immigrant struggling to make a life for himself, his wife and his daughter on Martha’s Vineyard, the summer get-away island for a good number of the country’s wealthy families, including the black elite.” In the interview, A.X. Ahmad discusses various aspects of the book, including the […]

Categories: Literature • Tags: A.X. Ahmad, Amardeep Singh, Colorlines, fiction, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, New York Times, novel, The Aerogram, The Caretaker, thriller

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Preeti Kaur, a poet/writer from California. (Photo credit: Jonathan B. Tucker. Source: The Aerogram)

The Aerogram’s interview with Preeti Kaur, Part II

March 7, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

The Aerogram has followed up last week’s interview with writer Preeti Kaur (a talented writer from California) with a second installment in which she talks about the back-story of her poems “Letters Home” and “You Bring Out the Punjabi in Me,” the Oak Creek tragedy, and struggles of Sikh Americans: It’s very fashionable amongst Sikh men these days to celebrate their turbans and flaunt their turbans as an accessory representing a resilient attitude (more power to them), to reverse the […]

Categories: Art, Literature, Profiles • Tags: Preeti Kaur, The Aerogram

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"Wheatfield with Crows" by Vincent Van Gogh, 1890. (source: Wikipedia)

The Aerogram interviews writer Preeti Kaur

February 27, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

On The Aerogram, Pavani Yalamanchili interviews poet and writer Preeti Kaur. In Part I of the interview, she talks about her early influences, including her grandmother: It felt like magic every time I would receive a dohra written just for me. My most memorable is one dohra she wrote in her last few years of life, where she talks about standing on the terrace drying her hair. A flock of crows flies by and she asks them to deliver a […]

Categories: Art, Literature, Profiles • Tags: Preeti Kaur, The Aerogram

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