Indian Ambassador Talks Trade With Wisconsin Governor
Ambassador of India to the United States, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, and Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers today held a virtual meeting and discussed trade and investment as well as people-to-people relations between Wisconsin and India. Both discussed strategies to tap the...
Purple Socks and Plums
Saturday mornings are such a thrill, as I resumed teaching my dance class on Zoom. It’s amazing what some music and movement can do for your soul. Treating yourself to the magic of it can catapult you from the ordinary to the extraordinary. Just that little “extra!”...
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Back To The Future At School
Can schools safely reopen though the pandemic shows little sign of waning and educators stumble towards the first day of school in the absence of a clear cut strategy? The answer is uncertain. In early July President Trump demanded that schools “open quickly,...
Racial and Caste Apartheid: Are They Similar?
“No one is free until we are all free.” Dr. King’s words continue to be a powerful message for South Asians throughout the U.S. Over the past month and a half, our country has been jolted by recent acts of violence against black folks. While systemic injustice and...
Is My Disaster Pack Ready?
What do you consider to be a natural disaster? Earthquakes? Hurricanes? Wildfires? When Hurricane Katrina submerged parts of Louisiana, the resulting damage was something to behold. The economic impact was $250 billion. Given a moment of rest to recover, Louisiana...
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Ethnicity Matters to Stem Cell Recipients
Indians are dying unnecessarily from blood cancers. There is a shortage of Indians available on the national registry to assist fellow Indians who have been diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood cancers. What’s the solution? To encourage more...
Indian Ambassador Talks Trade With Wisconsin Governor
Ambassador of India to the United States, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, and Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers today held a virtual meeting and discussed trade and investment as well as people-to-people relations between Wisconsin and India. Both discussed strategies to tap the...
Census Takers To Knock At Doors
Californians have two weeks left to self-respond to the census. In mid-August intrepid brigades of census foot soldiers will set forth to knock on doors and round up people who have not yet filled their forms. For the last six months, getting people to self respond to...
2020 Census: Making Every Voice Heard in the Bay Area
We have a once-in-a-decade opportunity to lay claim to what is rightfully ours in this country—a fair say in who leads the political institutions that have the power to protect or harm us, and that provide resources for fundamental human rights like health care, food,...
Voices
What If We Don’t Talk About Our Kids?
Lately, there have been many reports about women choosing not to have kids all over the world. Despite the changing times, unfortunately, bearing a child still seems the very definition of womanhood in many sad parts of the world where a woman is deemed “complete”...
Purple Socks and Plums
Saturday mornings are such a thrill, as I resumed teaching my dance class on Zoom. It’s amazing what some music and movement can do for your soul. Treating yourself to the magic of it can catapult you from the ordinary to the extraordinary. Just that little “extra!”...
After 370: Glimmers of Hope
Amrita Kar who was only four years when she became a refugee, now lives in Philadelphia and carries vivid memories of flying a kite with her sister and vignettes of her lost house. Ruchi Kolla from the Bay Area still remembers her childhood, the dolls she left behind...
Kashmir in Pain Even Before Article 370
Featured Image: Wailing mother of Faizan Fayaz hugs the best friend of her slain son. Faizan was killed in a firing by security forces on a polling day for Srinagar Lok Sabha Constituency in Budgam district on April 9, 2017. PC: Bilal Ahmad Bilal Ahmad, a freelance...
Culture
Mushkil Duniya Painted in Coffee
In June Ahmad Abumraighi messaged me asking if he can come to my community studio, Studio Pause, with his friend and filmmaker Anas Tolba. Anas was making a documentary on Ahmad as a Palestinian artist, whose work is about social justice and community. I asked Ahmad,...
HCF Hosts a Free Fundraiser Web Concert
Health & Care Foundation (formerly known as Polio Foundation) was founded in 1987 by a handful of dedicated Surgeons and like-minded persons to make the polio-affected persons stand on their two feet. Slowly the trust started working in other health care...
Shakuntala Devi: A Curious Woman
Shakuntala Devi is a biopic dramedy produced by Sony Pictures Network India and Vìkram Malhotra’s Abhyudaya Entertainment. Directed by Anu Menon, the film is a curious tale of a mathematical genius whose ability for mental mathematics is discovered when she is a...
They Call Me “Manu Master”
Virtual Bharat’s most recent film is set in Koolimuttam, Kerala. A story of a man, a rebel, a master, known to his disciples and thus to the world, by one name; “Manu Master,” he says with pride as he looks at the nature around him. His eyes are kind and filled with...
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Why This Republican Indian Combat Veteran Turned Democrat
I immigrated to the United States of America in 1992. I was a young man, under 21 years old. Shortly after my arrival, I found myself working at TEXACO to earn money, not realizing that I had just then personified the American cliché of a brown man from India working...
Indian Matchmaking: It Sucks, It’s True
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Audacity to Hope
I sat in my backyard reading Becoming by Michelle Obama on a hot Saturday afternoon. It was the 4th of July, and I had pages to go before I slept. During the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement, I resolved to read more about the life of minorities, racism, civil...
Policies of Exclusion
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The New Digital World Can Give Seniors A Hard Time
Family gatherings on Zoom and FaceTime. Online orders from grocery stores and pharmacies. Telehealth appointments with physicians. These have been lifesavers for many older adults staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic. But an unprecedented shift to virtual...
Back To The Future At School
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The New Normal For Seniors In A Post-Vaccine World
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Take the Time, Check In
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Your Trash, My Memories
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