Interview with Naren Bakshi
Interview with Naren Bakshi conducted by Jacqueline Ruiz, the founder and director of the Asian Indian Heritage Project.
Oral History Interview with Rangoli
Anish, Deepshikha and Satvika are co-founders of Rangoli, an LGBTQ+ South Asian group based in Pittsburgh, and editors of Mirrors, an LGBTQ+ South Asian anthology. They describe their personal histories individually followed by a discussion on how their involvement with Mirrors and Rangoli.
Oral History Interview with Aarushi Sharma
Aarushi Sharma is a second year Business Finance student at San Jose State University. Aarushi was born in Germany, spent her pre-teen years in India and then moved to the United States at the age of ten. Aarushi serves as one of the Board members for The Hidden Dream which is an organization that spreads awareness and supplies resources for visa Immigrants.
Oral History Interview with Sarvani Kunapareddy
Sarvani Kunapareddy was born in Hyderabad, India and she immigrated to the United States when she was just 4 years old. Sarvani is a co-founder of The Hidden Dream, an organization built to raise awareness of the countless struggles faced by visa immigrants and share resources. Sarvani is very passionate about immigration reform and advocacy.
Jahin Rahman Oral History Interview
Jahin Rahman talks about his work as founder of EYDB and the organization's activities during the pandemic.
Content Warning: violence against children
In this slideshow, you will see:
Food delivery and aid during the pandemic.
Volunteer gathering workshop as a part of community initiative in Queens.
In this slideshow, you will see:
Bronx Mutual Aid (BMA) Pro Palestine Rally.
BMA at Bangladeshi dance school that was used as food storage in Bronx.
BMA Food delivery.
Anti-Rape Rally in solidarity with survivors in Bangladesh.
BMA census work.
V. V. ('Sugi') Ganeshananthan Oral History Interview
V. V. ('Sugi') Ganeshananthan is an Ilankai Tamil American fiction writer and scholar based at the University of Minnesota. Her first novel is titled Love Marriage and her second novel was forthcoming at the time of this archived interview. Sugi discusses her upbringing and experiences being in Tamil American spaces.
Meenadchi Oral History Interview
Meenadchi is an Ilankai Tamil American facilitator and practitioner of non-violent communication. Meenadchi's interview is important to this project by discussing how collective healing might be facilitated for the Tamil community, where many community members have inflicted, and simultaneously were victims of, armed violence of fellow Tamils.
Maya McCoy Oral History Interview
Maya McCoy (she/her) leads organizing efforts with the Ilankai Tamil Feminist collective known as Maynmai. At the time of this interview, she is also a second year medical student, having made the transition into medicine soon after spending time in Sri Lanka on a fellowship.