“It was kind of a fish-out- of-water experience for myself, being your ‘American-Born, Confused Desi,’ going to India and getting submerged in the culture.” — Anisha Nagarajan ISSUE: Spring 2011 DEPT: Personalities STORY: Katrina Guevara with reporting by Anna M. Park As Madhuri, the wallflower call center worker on NBC’s hit series Outsourced, Anisha Nagarajan [...]

Artist Miya Ando is a woman obsessed with light. So much so that she went to Berlin recently and braved the freezing temperatures to create this fleeting, beautiful moment of artwork called “Resplendency: The Art of Light” for the Dam Stuhltrager Gallery. As a part of her “I’m Beautiful Night” series, Ando created phosphorescent sakura [...]