THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK
THE WARMTH OF INDIA // THE CONCRETE OF NEW YORK

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ISSUE 1

The inaugural issue of Veena is "MOTHERS," an homage to Himanshu "Heems" Suri's mother, Veena. It also marks the launch of Veena's music, fashion, and organic wellness products, as well as Suri's new music and the first-ever vinyl edition of Das Racist's iconic mixtapes.

What of your mother's recipes, inexact and scrawled in books? What does it mean to be a working mother? What happens when motherhood isn't as beautiful as it's made to seem? Read: Mayukh Sen, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Jason Diamond, Kaveh Akbar, Tanaïs, Amil Niazi, and Meghna Rao in our first-ever issue.

A recipe for E's avial, by Sarah Thankam Mathews
Your mother cooked with the furious and exacting intelligence of a person kept from their true great dreams, given a home kitchen for a canvas instead. 
Mothering the world, by Tanaïs
Perhaps this is what happens when you don’t bear your own children—motherhood comes for you anyway.
Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish, by Jason Diamond
About a year after my grandfather passed, I found "Kaddish." It helped me mourn.
Mothers I once was, by Kaveh Akbar
Mother with all of creation fattening. Mother who held on while it was happening.
Julie, my child, by Mayukh Sen
Revisiting Julie, an often-ignored cult classic of 1970s Bollywood, and a pathbreaking portrait of teenage motherhood.
Enough of the hero, by Meghna Rao
What happens if we start to recognize care beyond a mother's?
A baby is not a fruit, by Amil Niazi
It’s your second pregnancy, but something about the experience still feels different, alarming, overwhelming.

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