Category Archives: South Asian Productions

This list of ten musical numbers from the last ninety years or so of “talkie” films, starting in pre-Partition South Asia and ending in the 2010s

After a hundred years of Hindi cinema, we deserve a realistic, approbative representation of love. And, with those horrible Kya Kool Hai Hum years, we deserve a little more than a hundred years to make up for it. I, for one, have thoroughly enjoyed the rise of unabashed sexuality and healthy, normalized sexual relationships in new Indian films. Let’s celebrate them!

However, the Claremont Colleges are small, insular, and begging for a break in the daily grind’s monotony. Enter the South Asians, the desis, the few hundreds of nonwhite students in a Predominantly White Institution, with our dozens of student organizations and events.