Spotting a South Asian actor on American television is kind of like coming across an exotic animal on safari: you stop, blink a few times to make sure it’s real, and proceed to note every sound and movement. Their rarity transforms them into de facto cultural ambassadors; while it’s true that they’re merely playing a
My name’s Anish Majumdar and I’m a writer of Bengali origin, raised in Canada, currently living with my Irish-German-Lithuanian wife and two mixed-breed cats in Rochester, NY. I started DashAmerican.com to answer a question: are there others like me? People who participate in the culture of their parents as well as the myriad joys, heartaches

