The Past is a Country is an important exhibition of South Asian and Diasporic art, bringing some of the region's most dynamic voices to Los Angeles, especially during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. With the strides being made around South Asian representation in Hollywood, it was essential for me to add nuance to this vital conversation and draw out the emotional and aesthetic textures of South Asian communities through visual art. The concept of Indo-Nostalgia gives a glimpse into the emotional responses that emerge from our specific cultural worlds and shows how the past is simultaneously melancholic and utopian, romantic and critical.