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Episode #11: The "FOB" Story
Fresh off the dome.
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Episode #3: Boulevard of Broken American Dreams
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Episode #9: Mother Wounded
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Episode #7: The Body Keeps the Shor
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Episode #10: Life After Love
Do you believe in...?
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Episode #9: Mother Wounded
My Mother’s Day Moth story has found its way to my mother, and predictably, she didn’t like it. In the days and weeks since that story has stayed up on…
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Episode #8: Desi Buchanan
Born with दर्द (pain) built-in.
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Episode #7: The Body Keeps the Shor
The love & the light & the nafrat and the toofan.
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Episode #6: Khalbali (Committed to Memory)
All day all night mujhko yaad sataaye teri.
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Episode #5: Dial D for Deewani
Tattooed on my upper thigh so you know it's real.
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Episode #4: Out There
People said "just put yourself out there" and I did.
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the cutting chai
the cutting chai
Journal entries and voice memos on love, identity, survival and growth from one desi immigrant's chai and smoke sessions

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