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Radiostan Episode #5: Get Your Chutney On
Episode #5 of Radiostan, a podcast hosted by Tina Bhaga Yokota and Samip Mallick. In this episode, dated April 11, 2009, the hosts explore the history of Indians living in Trinidad.

Zak Mohyuddin Radio Ad
Radio ad for Zak Mohyuddin, who ran for County Commissioner of Coffee County, TN in 2014. Mohyuddin faced attacks on his race and religion during the election, and was believed to be the first foreign-born candidate to run for office in the county.

San Francisco's Ghadar Party Heritage
Audio recording of the 2014 event "San Francisco's Ghadar Party Heritage: 100 Years of Radical South Asian American History", presented by Shaping San Francisco and featuring Simmy Makhijani, Anantha Sudhakar, Barnali Ghosh, and Anirvan Chatterjee. The speakers explore the history of the Ghadar Party and connect it to present-day political struggles.

Radiostan Episode #1: Names
Episode #1 of Radiostan, a podcast hosted by Tina Bhaga Yokota and Samip Mallick. In this episode, dated December 14, 2008, the hosts explore names & naming, including personal names, married names, and the politics of naming.

Radiostan Episode #2: Dreams
Episode #2 of Radiostan, a podcast hosted by Tina Bhaga Yokota and Samip Mallick. In this episode, dated January 11, 2009, the hosts explore dreams, from the mystical and Freudian to the personal and political.

Ramu by Moses Bhagwan
Moses Bhagwan wrote "Ramu," a moving tribute to an archetypal figure in Guiana's history, the sugar cane cutter carrying his cutlass home from the fields, in 1964. At the time, Bhagwan was a political prisoner in a detention camp run by British colonial authorities. He wrote the poem, another one dedicated to his wife, and another invoking freedom in a notebook given to him by his sister.

repeat movement until by Nadia Misir
"repeat movement until" was composed by Nadia Misir, who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens College. The poem gives elegaic voice to a wedding ring handed down in a family and evokes its experience with labor, with skin, with surfaces, with temperatures, with grandmothers and granddaughters, with death.

One Last Bag by Elizabeth Jaikaran
"One Last Bag" was composed by Elizabeth Jaikaran, the author of the short story collection Trauma. With its buoyant wit, it levitates what is otherwise heavy: the weight of an overstuffed suitcase and, through the figure of a migrant trying to please her Queens cousin, the weight of family expectations.

Campaign ad for John F. Kennedy
Ad for then-Senator John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential election campaign. This item is associated with the collected materials of U.S. Representative Dalip Singh Saund; Saund had been endorsed by Kennedy in his own 1956 congressional campaign, and went on to work closely with Kennedy once he became president.

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