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Rishi Nath

Rishi Nath is a mathematician and writer. Originally from Boston, he lives in and writes about Jamaica Queens. Rishi is a former Open City Creative Nonfiction Fellow.

By Rishi Nath:
Exit West: An Interview with Ishmael Reed
Fact/Fiction
The Physics of Storytelling
Jah Guide Me Through
Always Foreign, Always Brown
The Talented Master Khan
Everything Is a Surface
Vish and Dev: Undocumented in Richmond Hill
Anatomy Of A Fuel Shortage: The Hess Station on Liberty Avenue in Queens
Land of The Beavers: A Conversation With Queens Historian Carl Ballenas
Scenes From Sandy: South Queens Recovers, Slowly
Queens Stand Up: The Essential Reading Guide on Hip-Hop’s Forgotten Borough
Ghetto Qu’ran: South Jamaica Through The Life Of 50 Cent
Bebi Rejendra, Student
The Neighborhood You Know Nothing About
Five Boroughs, Seven Killings

Recent Articles

  • The Only Phrase I Ever Learned in Danish Is ‘I’m Sorry’
    Poetry
    By Rodlyn-mae Banting

    At night, I whisper the word for woman, then other, repeat again.

    I was the first Lady Doctor
    Poetry
    By Athena Mariano Tan

    We are not rich, neither are we poor.

    Songs Against the Dictator: ‘Walang Hanggang Paalam | Neverending Farewell’ and ‘Pagbabalikwas | To Break Free’
    By Rene, Cristy, and Marx Rivera, The Bicutan Political Detainees

    Two revolutionary songs popularized during martial law speak of the time’s anti-fascist sentiments

    Against Forgetting: About the Art
    Essays
    By Noel Pangilinan

    Neil Doloricon’s art centered farmers, workers, underground revolutionaries, and those on the margins

    Children of the Sunflower Revolution
    Essays
    By Vina Orden

    Creating a life in the shadow of the martial law years

    Clowns in a Time of Repression
    Essays
    By Joi Barrios

    The “New Society” had its own tricks. Billions disappeared from the nation’s coffers, clowns filled legislative positions.

    The Mold
    Fiction
    By Yurina Yoshikawa

    I was alone now, except the mold still had a strong presence I couldn’t ignore.  

    This Will Be the Day That I Die: September 21, 1972
    Essays
    By Ninotchka Rosca

    The United States would support the Marcos dictatorship disguised as a “constitutional coup d’etat”

    Mula Kay Tandang Iskong Basahan: Tagpi-tagping Alaala
    | From Old Man Isko the Ragseller: A Patchwork of Memories
    Fiction
    By Pedro Cruz Reyes, Jr., John Bengan

    Kay hirap maging mahirap, kung hindi ka pa manginig sa galit ay hindi ka pa iintindihin.
    | It’s so hard to be poor. If you don’t tremble with rage, they won’t try to understand you.

    Because of You, Queen Kong
    Essays
    By Luis H. Francia

    It was Imelda as much as Ferdinand who brought about the country’s ruination

    Three Poems by Soleil Davíd
    Poetry
    By Soleil Davíd

    How does it feel to watch / the seeds of your destruction / walk away from you?

    The Bionic Boy and the Ten Billion Dollar Man
    Essays
    By Sheila S. Coronel

    The Marcoses have always been the masters of myth-making

    Ka Vernon
    Essays
    By Alma Domingo

    We walked uphill where tall cogon grasses were already starting to don their silver shade.

    Mula sa Kanayunan Tungo sa Kalunsuran
    | From the Countryside to the Cities
    By Noel Pangilinan, Jhong C. Delacruz, RN

    Rebolusyonaryong panulaan noong panahon ng batas militar |
    Revolutionary poetry during the martial law years

    Three Poems by Wo Chan
    Poetry
    By Wo Chan

    “@nature, i avoid you,” “my life newly painted is well,” and “@nature, teach me things”

    But I Had Always Been a Bad Comrade
    Fiction
    By Anna Cabe

    I wondered if Pia was right, then, if I was seeking something too dangerous to be handled, a bomb that would kill me someday.

    Martial Law and Its Aftermaths: A Personal History
    Essays
    By Gato del Bosque

    I became a full-time community organizer in 1971. The Marcos government declared martial law in September 1972. A month later, the Marcos military came and arrested me.

    A Country in a Dictator’s Sleep
    Essays
    By Gina Apostol

    The minute I arrived at the University of the Philippines as a freshman, I joined the marches.

    Our Memories, Our Souls
    Essays
    By Eric Gamalinda

    Marcos knew that power rested not just on fear and terror, but also censorship and propaganda.

    Why Did Marcos Declare Martial Law?
    Essays
    By Noel Pangilinan

    A brief history lesson on the fourteen-year military-backed dictatorship in the Philippines

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