I’ve found dating fellow Indian American millennials is more complicated than even the TV shows and movies portray. If only more Indian families had open conversations about it. — This post originally appeared on Red, White and Brown’s newsletter on Substack (Issue #49 sent on Dec. 14, 2022). By Vignesh Ramachandran This year, millions of Americans watched the second season of “Indian Matchmaking” on Netflix, feeding a reality-show-driven fascination with a modern spin on arranged marriage.

Wang’s book candidly chronicles her then-undocumented Chinese American family’s challenges in building a life in New York. — This post originally appeared on Red, White and Brown’s newsletter on Substack (Issue #48 sent on Dec. 9, 2022). By Vignesh Ramachandran Popular narratives about undocumented people in the United States are often overgeneralized and politicized, focusing predominantly on the nation’s southern border.

This new feature film, set in Los Angeles’ Indian epicenter of Artesia, features several rising South Asian American creatives. — This post originally appeared on Red, White and Brown’s newsletter on Substack (Issue #47 sent on Dec. 2, 2022). By Vignesh Ramachandran Everyone loves a good heist movie — that thrill we get hoping the protagonists don’t trip an alarm or get spotted by a bystander. But what makes new…

It’s absurd that we’ve reached this point. — This post originally appeared on Red, White and Brown’s newsletter on Substack (Issue #46 sent on Nov. 6, 2022). By Vignesh Ramachandran As we participate in and witness the midterm election this upcoming week, we also continue to witness how the partisan divide in the U.S. has reached a new…

About 97% of the U.S. population who aren’t indigenous to this country are either first-generation immigrants themselves or have families that were once immigrants to this country. — This post originally appeared on Red, White and Brown’s newsletter on Substack (Issue #43 sent on Sept. 2, 2022). By Vignesh Ramachandran By now, many of you have probably seen the video of a woman’s racist attack on several Indian American women in a Plano, Texas, parking lot on Aug…

The streaming successes of “Indian Matchmaking,” “Wedding Season” and “Never Have I Ever” is thrilling. But can we talk about the tropes used to depict Indian American men? — This post originally appeared on Red, White and Brown’s newsletter on Substack (Issue #42 sent on Aug. 19, 2022). By Vignesh Ramachandran The last two weeks have been gold for South Asian American stories on one of the world’s largest media platforms: Netflix. …

It’s time to redefine these stereotyped labels with new understandings of parent-child relationships. — This post originally appeared on Red, White and Brown’s newsletter on Substack (Issue #40 sent on June 17, 2022). By Vignesh Ramachandran As we celebrate Father’s Day this weekend, after Mother’s Day just a few weeks ago, a recent NPR story got me thinking about some age-old stereotypes: the idea…

At what cost do we sacrifice play, rest and leisure for professional goals? — This post originally appeared on Red, White and Brown’s newsletter on Substack (Issue #39 sent on June 3, 2022). By Vignesh Ramachandran When I left a job in California after four years, I cashed out on something like six weeks of unused vacation time. …

Wendi C. Thomas, Lorie Hearn and Bettina Chang have waded through the rocky waters of journalism careers and launched their own nonprofit newsrooms. — Every time journalist Wendi C. Thomas has gotten a six-figure grant, added a national funder or won a national award, she has thought about writing to the Ivy League professor who once said her news startup idea would not work. A year after that discouragement, Thomas successfully founded the Memphis-based…