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About Awaargi

Awaargi is a weekly newsletter about South Asian New York: the events, the rooms, the people, and the nights worth wandering across the city for.

the Awaargi editor, editor of Awaargi

From the editor

The best nights begin with knowing where to look.

I'd hear about the qawwali three days late, or miss the supper club entirely because it was buried in someone's Instagram stories. Awaargi is the newsletter I wish I'd had two years ago, and the one I now write for everyone else who's tired of hunting.

Every Tuesday, I pull the week into one clear edit: the dinners, shows, talks, parties, and gatherings I'd send to a friend.

Awaargi (آوارگی) means wandering, and to me it means curiosity in motion. The word lives across Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi poetic vocabulary. Pronounced ah waar gee.

The Tuesday edit

Hear about it before it's three days too late.

One weekly email with a focused edit of South Asian NYC events worth knowing about.