We decided to try growing some vegetables that are used in South Asian cooking. It just made it more meaningful for us to grow these foods that have some cultural heritage behind.

Many of New York City’s more than 300,000 South Asian residents have been inspired by Mamdani’s extraordinary trajectory. “My mom was texting her friends to vote for him.

Seema Kak is the executive director of Kiran, a Raleigh-based nonprofit founded in 2007 by a group of friends concerned about domestic violence in the South Asian community in Wake County.

The exhibition will portray the lived experiences of a South Asian family in the city from 1968 to 2010, drawing on Coventry Archives' Virk Collection and Hardish Virk's Stories That Made Us ...

In a 2021 study, 48 percent of South Asian respondents reported experiencing physical abuse. Intimate partner violence is often kept secret in the community to avoid damaging a family's reputation.