People in my hood suffer opera singers practicing scales, late-night subway trains rumbling underfoot and loud Italian neighbors making 6 am phone calls to their desh. But sometimes little moments make it all worth it.

I was walking through a stamp-sized public park the other day when I overheard two Harlem locals wondering aloud who a newly-installed statue was supposed to represent. ‘It’s Harriet Tubman,’ I said in passing. ‘The faces are supposed to be the slaves she saved.’

‘Thank you,’ the younger African-American lady said. ‘I had no idea!’

‘I didn’t either, I just saw the sign.’ A tiny green placard mounted high up: Harriet Tubman Square.

There’s a scene in Loins of Punjab where Indophile Josh Cohen (Michael Raimondi) corrects Rrita Kapoor (Shabana Azmi) on the finer points of Amitabh’s filmi dialogue. At every screening, this scene makes the audience cackle. I feel like I just had my Josh Cohen moment