Latest
“Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows” Explores Female Sexuality Without Men
At Hindu weddings, a line of married women take their turns whispering words of wisdom…
Shreya360’s “bars” Offers Poetry Across Mediums
Tamil-American California-based creative Shreya360 first came to our attention in 2016, with a series of…
Dancer SNJV Is Challenging Classic Gender Norms In the Gorgeous “Phool”
“Sanson ki mala pe simruun main pi ka naam…” she sings, “I bead my beloved’s name on the garland of my breaths…” The way a song comes back to us,…
Trump Administration Ends TPS for Nepal
On April 26th, The Department of Homeland Security ended the TPS program for Nepal, giving the roughly 9,000 current TPS…
Revisiting Doctors and Engineers’ Music in Troubling Times
*From a Good Family, the debut album of Doctors and Engineers, coincided with the 2016 election. As we find ourselves in a troubling regime, it’s a good time to revisit their music.…
“Breaking The Bee” Highlights the Dynasty of South Asian Spellers
Director Sam Rega sat down with Kajal Magazine to discuss his documentary on South Asian-American…
10 Short Films Chronicling Pan-Asian Experiences
Representation helps us unlearn. This year, I grappled with my perspectives about celebrity, integrity, and…
The Simpsons Delivered a Big “F U” to the South Asian-American Community
Nothing I love more than white men telling me what’s racist. Back in November, I…
Movie Night: Wild Wild Country
Wild Wild Country is a six-part documentary series directed by brothers Chapman and Maclain Way…
Hasan Minhaj Is Getting His Own Netflix Show
Everyone’s favorite brown boy is back! Breakout star of The Daily Show, comedian Hasan Minhaj…
The Real Story of How Pad Man Became Famous by Selling Shame
This post originally appeared on Mythri Speaks. “If we want to give our daughters Sanitary…
Love in Three Encounters
The half-life of love is forever. -Junot Diaz 1 11 pm. Whatever they’re having, you said, sweeping your arm our way. The bartender serves you and Julian whiskey sours. Julian…
Kajal Vol. 2: Love Machine
This piece was originally published in Kajal Volume 2, Mytho-Techno. Order your copy of the…
I Have My Grandfather’s Hands
I have my grandfather’s hands. They are square and hardy. They can hold a lot.…
Tommy Pico’s “Junk” is a Love Letter to Abandonment
Junk is the latest epic book length poem written by Native American poet and 2018…
Swipe Me Left, I’m Dalit
Everything from knowledge to housing to career is determined by one’s social location. And so…
Browntown: Home Is Where the Bazaar Is
Negine Jasmine: In the heart of Artesia lives little India, which is located in southeast Los Angeles. The first time I visited the streets of Artesia was when I was…
More from Kajal
In the summer of 1992, my family moved from New Jersey to South Texas. This is our story. In the early 1980s, my parents emigrated from…
There are many near deaths in Krystal A. Sital’s memoir Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad – her grandfather’s almost immediately fatal aneurysm, her mother’s car…
Michelle De Kretser’s The Life to Come, released last September, is the Sri Lankan-Australian Miles Franklin Award winning author’s fifth full length novel. If, like myself, you’re a…
Kajal Magazine is excited to announce our newest joint project with BRWN HIVE. Together, we’re producing a monthly radio hour featuring various up and coming South…
What do our astrological elements mean? Just because you’re a water sign doesn’t mean you love the ocean or cry a lot. There are plenty of…
to live in this world as Sogi says is as long as taking shelter from rain -Basho The legendary haiku poet, Matsuo Basho, so greatly admired…
South Asians at the margins – queer, Dalit, Muslim, Bangladeshi, Tibetan, Sikh, Nepali, Pakistani, Shi’a and religious minority backgrounds – have been excluded from the institutions…
The synergy between jazz and Indian music is no accident. Subhi continues to merge the genres and leave a legacy larger than herself. Subhi and I…
Kajal, Vol. 2: Mytho-Techno explores the intersections of technology and faith, or the lack of. We’ve invited over 20 writers and artists to share short stories,…
Qais Essar’s latest album The Ghost You Love Most dropped this week. The dawn of Qais Essar’s third album is a blossoming, a “coming into.” For…
In a new installation at the Rubin Museum, Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh interrupts the museum’s permanent collection of Himalayan art with animated videos that draw directly…
Grit is a global movement. There isn’t a lot of South Asian punk rock, but we like to thrash just the same. Pop culture has a tendency…
With a loyal online following and a client date book that fills up faster than it takes to watch to the end of her Instagram stories,…
Cherry Kutti’s work is provocatively original. Cherry Kutti’s “Red” and “Black” were her first simple-chroma art series, marking the beginning of finding her voice through art. These…
On March 27th, the nonprofit Brooklyn Defender Services in partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) launched an online “We Have Rights” campaign, dedicated to…
Last week, the research and advocacy organization Equality Labs released a report on Caste in the United States. The national survey that formed the basis of this…
Trust what shows itself. Where do you catch your omens? Do you believe in synchronicity? Studying astrology is one of the deepest ways one can honor…
Rewire your brain. Pardey Ke Peeche (Behind the Curtains) is a graphic art series that examines the arc of the human experience. We have the exclusive…
Marvia Malik, a 21 year old journalism graduate and model, has just been hired as Pakistan’s first transgender news anchor. Malik was hired by the station…
Makeup is not my strong point–I wear my face bare as often as I can. I stay away from bright colors in favor of neutral tones…