Mallika Rao
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Ignore The Online Backlash Cycle: Marie Kondo's Netflix Show Is Good
"Tidying Up With Marie Kondo" bears little resemblance to the divisive, book-hating show described on social media. → Read More
How The Instant Pot Became A New Immigrant Classic
The creator wanted to facilitate a comfort dish for each of the newest clans in North America: porridge for the Chinese, dal for Indians, beans for Latinos. → Read More
An Immigrant Grandmother on Running Her Own Lab and Beating the Odds
I spoke to an immigrant grandmother who runs her own biology lab in New York about women in science and beating the odds. → Read More
An Ode to the Sari
An ode to the beautiful, functional sari. → Read More
'Lady Dynamite' Is the Boldest and Most Subversive Comedy on TV
We spoke with co-creator Pam Brady about the comedy that is surprisingly deft about mental illness, race issues, and white feminism. → Read More
Let's Imagine The First Episode Of The Kondo 'Tidying' Sitcom
A study in three scenes. → Read More
How To Make Friends With Your Country's Enemies
See, touch, love. → Read More
Why No One Looks Cool Posing For Photographs
Not even Beyoncé. → Read More
Why Do Some Pakistanis Hate Malala So Much?
The American tendency to mythologize individuals doesn't help. → Read More
Television's Nerdiest Indian Gets Real
Kunal Nayyar, the shy astrophysicist who rules Monday nights, talks girls and grit in his new memoir. → Read More
Ce réfugié syrien perdu en pleine mer a sauvé la vie de 50 personnes grâce à son smartphone
RÉFUGIES - Assis dans un petit canot en pleine Méditerranée, Mohamed*, jeune homme dégingandé de 27 ans, se rend compte de l’atroce vérité au lev → Read More
A Digital Survival Guide For The Modern Refugee
A compendium of helpful apps for migrants on the move. → Read More
Lost At Sea And Texting For Help
How an iPhone signal in the unlikeliest of places helped save the lives of migrants. → Read More
Pakistani Superhero 'Burka Avenger' Uses Books As Her Weapon
At once progressive and devout, Jiya represents the balance many Pakistanis long for on a national scale. → Read More
Meet The Women Radicalizing One Of The World's Oldest Dance Forms
The Ramaswamys function on an "adapt or die" mentality, but “fusion” is a bad word. → Read More
This Parody Of Bollywood 'Party Songs' Is Too Good, Yaar
From the hypocrisy of "rap" interludes to alllll those wet t-shirts. → Read More
The Light Shift
The anonymous 34-year-old is stealing out at night, trying to endear the country to her fictional Muslim hero. → Read More
'RN,' So Hot RN
An old acronym is suddenly everywhere, Tom Cruise-like, full of mysterious renewed vigor. → Read More
Here's Why Walter Palmer Keeps Saying He 'Took' Cecil The Lion
Used commonly among hunters, the euphemism reveals a culture of Orwellian doublespeak prevalent throughout the hunting world. → Read More
Salute Your Shorts
Our resident magical thinker makes sense of the year's most baffling craze. → Read More