SAMAR Magazine Issue #5 (Summer 1995)
The Summer 1995 issue of SAMAR (No. 5), subtitled “Black or White or What,” examines the intersection of racial politics and the South Asian Community. The issue includes contributions from Arvind Rajagopal, Karen Leonard, Khurram Hassan, Somini Sengupta, Nirmal Selvamony, S.
SAMAR Magazine Issue #11 (Spring/Summer 1999)
The Spring/Summer 1999 issue of SAMAR (No. 11), subtitled “Organizing Women: Taking Stock, Moving On,” examines the lives and rights of South Asian Women in North America. The issue includes contributions from Shamita Das Dasgupta, Amisha Patel, Barbara Foley, Bakirati Mani, Naresh Fernandes, Paul Greenough, Srimati Basu, Maya Sharma, and Aparajita Sagar.
"Indian-American Week"
Bicentennial issue of Indian-American Week, April 24-May 1, 1976, assembled by The Association of Indians in America, Inc. The issue highlights a special event organized by The Association of Indians in America, Inc. and the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania commemorating the life of Dr.
Cover of Heritage Issue 2
The second issue of Heritage, containing new writing by Mahadai Das, Henry Muttoo, Janet Naidu and others, appeared in September 1973, six months after the first issue. This is a rare and historically significant publication.
Pages from Heritage Issue 2
These pages from the second issue of Heritage contain a pen drawing and a polemic about the 1948 massacre of sugar cane workers at the Enmore Plantation in Guyana, which fanned the embers of the movement for independence in Guyana. The pages also contain an add for the third issue of the newsletter.
Cover of a 1965 issue of True Detective
Kokila Bahadur came as a nurse trainee at the Jersey City Medical Center in 1966, the year of Guyana's independence. The first in the Bahadur family to immigrate, Kokila Bahadur sponsored her husband, children and many dozens of other relatives through provisions of the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act, the immigration law that profoundly changed the demographics of the United States.
"Women Fighters of Liberation Tigers" by Adele Ann
This booklet of LTTE propaganda is brought up by V. V. ('Sugi') Ganeshananthan during her interview for the Archival Creators Fellowship project on Ilankai Tamil Feminism. She discusses how, despite not having an explicitly politicized family, she grew up surrounded by Tamil nationalist ephemera that shaped her experience as a Sri Lankan Tamil American.