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• Aash Jethra wrote a new blog post: Gallery Opening Reception of “Sikhtoons” commemorates 25th Anniversary of Sikh massacre   2 days, 10 hours ago
  

  Thursday night was the gallery opening reception for “When a Big Tree Falls,” an exhibit by Vishavjit Singh that commemorates 2009 being the 25th anniversary of the massacre of Sikhs that resulted from Operation Blue Star.

  Operation Blue Star was the 1984 Indian military operation ordered by then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, to remove Sikh separatists [...]

• Aash Jethra wrote a new blog post: Muslim New Yorkers Respond to Fairness of American Media Coverage of the Fort Hood Killings   1 week, 2 days ago
  

  The Fort Hood killings that took place on Thursday, November 5 and resulted in the deaths of 13 American have caused a wave of media coverage on various aspects of the incident and its ramifications, including attention to the fact that the alleged killer, Nidal Malik Hasan,was Muslim. News outlets seem to be insinuating a [...]

• Aash Jethra wrote a new blog post: Pakistani New Yorkers on Kerry-Lugar Bill: Not Offensive, but Won’t Help   2 weeks, 2 days ago
  

  The Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009, also known as the Kerry-Lugar Bill, has been under much criticism lately from the government of Pakistan, in particular because of the clauses it contains which ensure that the the money, $1.5 billion per annum for five years, will not be funneled into the military, but into [...]

• Aash Jethra wrote a new blog post: An Oasis of Comfort along a Relentless Stretch   3 weeks ago
  

  Here, amongst the office for an Urdu weekly, a large mosque and a travel agency that specializes in tickets to Pakistan is Bukhari Restaurant and Sweets. This restaurant is the closest thing this stretched-out immigrant enclave in Brooklyn, known as ‘Little Pakistan’, has to a central area.
  Inside Bukhari, you can find are heavy plates of [...]

• Aash Jethra wrote a new blog post: An Oasis of Comfort along a Relentless Stretch   3 weeks ago
  

  Here, amongst the office for an Urdu weekly, a large mosque and a travel agency that specializes in tickets to Pakistan is Bukhari Restaurant and Sweets. This restaurant is the closest thing this stretched-out immigrant enclave in Brooklyn, known as ‘Little Pakistan’, has to a central area.
  Inside Bukhari, you can find are heavy plates of [...]

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