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Bio

In D.C. I was a journalist who covered race + class. Now I'm an emerging screenwriter living in sin in Hollywood. 🧿 I was banned from Twitter (2007-2020) after cordially inviting white supremacists and anti-Semites to "gargle my balls" and choke on my 🍆. Despite losing 5,000 followers and many of my sources, I regret nothing.

Now: writing scripts and essays / researching my great grandmother's vintage and vegetarian Kerala recipes 🌿

Obligatory and Strategically Incomplete List of Accomplishments and Nonsense by which you can judge me:

- Forbes 30 Disappointments over 30 👵🏽

- 2x Diversity Scholarship winner at the Upright Citizens Brigade (improv + sketch comedy) 🎭

- erstwhile Senior Reporter at NPR ✍

- co-founder of the legendary South Asian America blog Sepia Mutiny (2004-2012) 🖕🏽

- Executive Director, Indian American Center for Political Awareness / The Washington Leadership Program 🇮🇳🇺🇸

- Outstanding Senior Award, U.C. Davis 🐄

- quondam + accidental Miss India California 👸🏻

- teen columnist for The Sacramento Bee 🐝

Always: Greek Orthodox, Malayalee, pakka vegetarian, devoted to my dogs, allergic to bullshit, ΔΓ. ⚓


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Almost 20 years of posts, panels, photographs, and podcast interviews about:

The South Asian American experience, Mental health, Boxing, Sexual Violence in the Desi Community, Immigration, the Model Minority myth, Colorism, Anti-Blackness in the South Asian community, Feminism, Media diversity, Medical racism, Caste in the diaspora, Christianity in South Asia, Online harassment and hostility towards women, Desis in politics, Gentrification, How to disappoint your immigrant parents, Gender and leadership, French Bulldogs, so much more.

Occasionally available to speak and write.