
Fears and frustrations: When forced to fly home
March 10, 2020, 6 p.m.: “Dude. Harvard, Stanford and Smith just shut down their campuses.” We all look up. Brian Lee ’20 is staring back at us, alarm writ large…
Sasha Gopalakrishnan '20 is an international student from Delhi, India. She is an International Studies major with a Women’s Studies minor, and she fell in love with the Arts section of the Misc the second she discovered it in the fall of her freshman year. Having previous served as an Arts reporter and later the Arts Editor, Gopalakrishnan is the Senior Editor for the Spring 2019 term. She is also a part of Vassar Refugee Solidarity and South Asian Students’ Alliance. You are most likely to catch her at Express, consuming copious amounts of coffee and wearing ~experimental~ earrings.
By Sasha Gopalakrishnan – 4 years ago
March 10, 2020, 6 p.m.: “Dude. Harvard, Stanford and Smith just shut down their campuses.” We all look up. Brian Lee ’20 is staring back at us, alarm writ large…
By Sasha Gopalakrishnan – 4 years ago
This piece was initially intended for a social justice blog run by a global nonprofit I interned with over the summer. They mobilize young people to spark change in their…
By Sasha Gopalakrishnan – 4 years ago
The graduation ceremony for the Class of 2019 had just ended. I stood with my friends as we shed tears and sweat, but what we unfortunately had not managed to…
By Sasha Gopalakrishnan – 4 years ago
The graduation ceremony for the Class of 2019 had just ended. I stood with my friends as we shed tears and sweat, but what we unfortunately had not managed to…
By Sasha Gopalakrishnan – 5 years ago
On April 11, 2019, India saw tens of millions of citizens, across 20 states and union territories, lining up in front of polling booths and electronic voting machines to cast…
By Sasha Gopalakrishnan – 5 years ago
“When a senior administrator at Duke sent an email to international students, asking them not to speak their mother tongue in public spaces…it was a sort of small-scale explosive: piercing,…
By Sasha Gopalakrishnan – 6 years ago
With Karina Norton ’20 and Jenna Llorens-Blas ’19 looking over their shoulders and smoldering at readers as the two sport a floral aesthetic, the cover of Contrast’s Spring 2018 issue…
By Sasha Gopalakrishnan – 6 years ago
CW: This article discusses abduction, sexual violence and murder. In January 2018, eight Hindu men—including four police officers and one minor—abducted, raped and murdered Asifa Bano, an eight-year old Muslim…
By Sasha Gopalakrishnan – 6 years ago
“ ‘But if I ran the zoo,’ / Said young Gerald McGrew, / ‘I’d make a few changes / That’s just what I’d do…’ / The lions and tigers and…
By Sasha Gopalakrishnan – 6 years ago
The entire movie theater erupted in applause. A huge smile on my face, my cheeks wet with tears, I took a deep breath as I watched the credits roll on…