Nadya Agrawal

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Nadya Agrawal is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. She founded Kajal Magazine and hosts the Cardamom Pod on Earios Network.

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Who Gets to Tell Stories About India and Its People?

India for white filmmakers is a place in their imagination.

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Nadya Agrawal
Apr 04, 2022
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‘The Namesake’ and The Stories We Tell About Our Parents

There is something resplendent in the stories of our parents.

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Nadya Agrawal
Jan 27, 2022
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On ‘Mississippi Masala’ and the Politics of Desire

They were a two-sided awakening for me; a bi-panic-inducing pairing.

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Nadya Agrawal
Sep 07, 2021
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The Fraught Identity of ‘Where’s the Party Yaar’

I get the melancholic task of laughing through my grief.

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Nadya Agrawal
Jun 10, 2021
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Cover Photo: A screenshot of Bend It Like Beckham with Jess (the film's heroine) in a soccer jersey and the girls in pink who sit on a bench
The Women Who Don’t Bend in ‘Bend It Like Beckham’

The film contains a pantheon of archetypes, all of them represented in these Indian Panjabi women.

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Nadya Agrawal
Apr 12, 2021
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