Ashok—or, more precisely, Raima Reason—first learned how to wrap a sari by watching a series of tutorials on YouTube compiled from every corner of the Indian diaspora. After sifting through a slush pile of amateurishly slick videos that begged for followers using mostly spinning titles and jazzy graphics, he found some of the more helpful to be hilarious, others dry and inexplicably academic, but all made the complicated process look like a snap. In the basement dressing room of The Crossing, however, where nobody’s phone got a signal and the videos refused to load, Raima wrapping a sari from memory proved to be a more elaborate undertaking than planned. Eventually Ashok had just unfurled the entire bolt of satiny cloth, tossed one end across the dressing room to Erik and then, pinning the
