Writing With a Broken Tusk
Writing With a Broken Tusk began in 2006 as a blog about overlapping geographies, personal and real-world, and writing books for children. The blog name refers to the mythical pact made between the poet Vyaasa and the Hindu elephant headed god Ganesha who was his scribe during the composition of the Mahabharata. It also refers to my second published book, edited by the generous and brilliant Diantha Thorpe of Linnet Books/The Shoe String Press, published in 1996, acquired and republished by August House and still miraculously in print.
“SAADA Became Home.” Mayanthi Jayawardena on her Dreamscape Mural
For 15 years, the non-profit organization SAADA (South Asian American Digital Archive) has been building a virtual space to contain and disseminate the stories of South Asian Americans. They have the largest publicly accessible archive of South Asian American stories, over a million visitors to their web site, original essays about South Asian America in TIDES, an online magazine—and now they have their own office space in Philadelphia, complete with art on the walls.