This is Rekha

Name Rekha Malhotra
Age 36
Location Brooklyn, New York
Occupation DJ and producer

1. Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep and Co-Co record: “I think I own about 10,000 records. This was from when we lived in England. My parents had a handful of records. It probably existed before I did.”

2.Wooden Ganesh: “It’s just found art. It’s garbage. Having been raised Hindu, everywhere there’s a picture of a deity, it’s sacred. So, I saw it in the street and I just had to take it home.”

3. Newport Cigarette playing cards: “My father had a candy shop growing up and I worked there summers. This was their number one swag item.”

4. Those Who Ride the Night Winds, by Nikki Giovanni: “I developed my reading habit in sixth grade when we moved from Queens to suburbia and I didn’t have a lot of friends.”

5. Golden lime and chili: “It’s a thing people put above the door to ward off evil. In India, you’ll actually see a lime and a chili suspended. This is sort of the Saks Fifth Avenue version.”

6. New York University Artist in Residency launch-event brochure: “I taught at a school that I didn’t get accepted to as an undergrad. The course was called Pop Culture: South Asians in the U.S. It was the sweetest revenge.”

7. Basement Bhangra, her album.