Writer
Writing is one of the key ways I can communicate.
Plus - I wrote and directed the short film, “The Apartment” which won (!) jury recognition at the Indian World Film Festival and the World International Music and Film Festival. I'm also working on a collection of essays about the role of the maternal in my journey as an immigrant, activist and mother.
And of course - like all modern humans with something to say - I blog.
Eunice Christabel D’sa, rubella née Pinto was born 103 years ago today. I called her Mummy. She was my grandmother but a two-year old doesn’t distinguish; the woman who raises you is your mother...
It's hard to believe that more than two years after it was shot, cure my first film, "The Apartment" will have its festival debut at the Universe Multicultural Film Festival in Palos Verdes this Saturday, April 2nd!
I've kept a regular journal since the age of 12. I started writing to express myself (as opposed to writing for school) much earlier - my earliest recollection is 5...
Amy Schumer’s joke about Ferguson during her recent HBO Comedy Special was insensitive and in poor taste...
Today is my mother’s birthday. She would have been 68. She was 25 when she got married, information pills 26 when she had me and 28 when she died...
I'm back on Indusubaiya.com. 2013 was a hard year but a transformative year. And now we're in 2014 and the climate is calmer. I hope I write about all the things I love...
If Donald Trump wins it’s not time to emigrate, ascariasis though tempting. But it’s also not time to live with the anger (at worst) and chronic anxiety (at best) that we’ve put up with this election season...