Dear readers, We started Kajal Magazine as a platform to rectify so many media wrongs by giving space to voices of color. From our earliest days, we have applied our politics to our platform as much as we can. It is the policy of this magazine to NOT report on people who have been accused … Read More
It’s time men took responsibility for their actions. Comedian Aziz Ansari joins the list of men in Hollywood who, time and again, use their power to coerce and hurt women. This weekend, feminist magazine Babe published a story about Ansari repeatedly overstepping boundaries with his date Grace, an anonymous 23 year-old photographer. She tells Babe … Read More
Why are brown men so infatuated with white women onscreen, BuzzFeed writer Imran Siddiquee asks in his essay of the same name. Why do they overlook and underrepresent women of color in order to date white women, is the question I ask. While Sidiquee eviscerated the genre of “Diaspora South Asian Dude Does Rom-Com” in … Read More
He took down the “lowercase kkk” movement and Trump. I’ll be the first to say I had misgivings about Aziz Ansari hosting SNL this week. Not only was he the first South Asian host ever (something that is a dubious beacon of positivity in 2017), but this was the same show that invited Donald Trump to … Read More
“What the f*ck do you need?! How many celebrities have made these stupid f*cking videos?!” Aziz Ansari has come out of the Master of None writer’s room to discuss the most pressing and embarrassing issue of the day: undecided voters. In a new video from the environmental SuperPac NextGen Climate Action Committee, Ansari blasts people … Read More
Aziz Ansari, of literary and Parks & Recreation fame, is coming out with his new show on Netflix, Master of None. In it he plays Dev, a lovelorn, hapless wannabe actor trying to make it big while he figures out his adult life. It also stars Ansari’s actual parents as his parents in the show … Read More
Your phone holds the key to the greatest force in the internet — love (and, slightly less great but definitely still compelling, sex). Apps, websites, emails, and texts form the brunt of our new age wooing, and in the massive onslaught of humanity that is the internet we often feel overwhelmed. The main problem is actually … Read More
