When I read Salman Rushdie’s essay “Imaginary Homelands” in high school, I was blown away. I had never read someone who handled the themes of a fragmented nostos, displaced identity, and cultural duplexity with more nuance... the first Asian anglophone writers are in fact South Asian, and they are the ones who have shown us an English literature that can not only speak to diasporic communities worldwide, but also to humanity at large.

— Eric Zhou

…especially here at Harvard, many of our Asian clubs and Asian labelled spaces are really only inviting for East Asians. What unifies us and should make us fight stronger for these pan-Asian identities in this magazine is just that - our historical and shared fight against racism and against silence in America.

— Jerrica Li

South Asians are dramatically underrepresented not only in commercially popular Asian/Asian American narratives—think: Fresh off the Boat, Crazy Rich Asians, Always Be My Maybe—but also in Asian/Asian American groups on campus... “Asian” should not merely evoke “East Asian” in the public consciousness. It is so much more complicated—so much more kaleidoscopic—than that.

— Céline Vendler