Crosscurrents

Meet the Desi drag queens reworking Bollywood and making the Bay their home

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Raj Krishna and Jason Sharma founded Masala Mahal, one of the only Desi drag collectives in the country. KALW’s Srishti Prabha follows them from rehearsal to the stage at a South Asian Pride party in San Francisco, as they reclaim Bollywood and their cultural roots in a space where neither South Asian nor mainstream drag culture fully embraces them.