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About The Indalian Job

You are here. The Indalian Job is a humor blog that features new essay-length posts every other week. Topics range from cheesecake and emotionally unstable multi-ethnic families to politics, culture, sexuality, and dead grandparents. My Indian father reads this stuff and wonders where I come up with it. My Italian mother reads it and believes she’s being punished by God for losing faith in the Roman Catholic Church and marrying a heathen.

About Jana

In a past life, Jana Sikdar was a humorist for the Yale Daily News. According to her astrologer, she’s also been a revered but lonely sacred healer in an ancient mountain village. This may account for her continued ability to carry out Hindi mind tricks of the “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for” variety when she thinks really, really hard about something. From the moment of conception, Jana was a bi-racial zygote keenly aware of the dislocation and exile she experienced in her mother’s post-colonial, normative, white womb. In utero, she wrote a series of essays entitled Imaginary Uteruses: Essays and Criticism based upon these formative gestational experiences. During the last quarter century, Jana has been the first girl in her elementary school to wear a bra, a depressed teen languishing in the pageant of mediocrity that is suburbia, an angry intellectual fetus, and a multiple-time recipient of random searches as a part of the NYPD’s Harassment of Brown People outreach program. After university, Jana became a semi-professional home-wrecker. In September 2007, she placed second in her weight class in the First Annual “My Girlfriend Wants To Stab You Through The Heart” Wreck Fest. Since her retirement from the circuit, Jana peacefully lives out her days with her platonic life partner, The Wife, and imaginary puppy.