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Srinivas Kuruganti

met Srinivas Kuruganti in New York in the mid-1990s when we were both part of the emerging South Asian party scene based on the heady beats of bhangra remix music. I was ostensibly doing dissertation research on second-generation Indian Americans while spending nights in Lower Manhattan clubs, and Srini was visually documenting this new youth subculture in a

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