An Unfiltered Response to Colorism in Instagram Filters
I have a small addiction to Instagram filters. I can and have spent too much time finding the craziest filters possible. There are filters that make you loo...
Racial Inequity Impacts Older Asian Americans
The impact of racial inequity on the lives of elderly Asian Americans has been rudely brought to our attention by the attacks on Asian elders. AARP is hosting s...
My Annual Pilgrimage to Shanti Ashrama in San Antonio Valley
I have been making a trip to the Shanti Ashrama every year on the last Saturday of April for nearly 15 years now. Vedanta Society of Northern California organ...
Arunay Foundation: Born From Loss, A Choice to Educate on Bay Area Beach Safety
“When we left Cowell Ranch beach on January 18th, 2021, exhausted and heartbroken, without Arunay, we knew that something was fundamentally wrong with what ha...
#MaskPodu: Bay Area High Schooler Joins Forces With Mask India Project
As COVID-19 makes its way down to the southern parts of India, there has been a silver lining. We have seen a surge of humanity that is lending a helping......
Get A Free Six Pack of Beer With Your Proof of Vaccine!
There are enormous disparities in the COVID vaccination rate - from state to state, county to county, and community to community. Why is it that when the vaccin...
Racism is a Public Health Crisis Say CA Lawmakers
After the killing last year of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers declared racism a public health crisi...
Small Businesses Must Apply For PPP Grants Say EMS Panel
Ben Chilli Bowl, an iconic Washington D.C. diner, was going to close its doors. It did not receive a loan under Payment Protection Plan (PPP), the government ...
State Epidemiologist Highlights Expanded COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility to Protect Kids 12+
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) today released the latest “On the Record” ethnic media column, in which California State Epidemiologist Dr...
AACI & Bank of America Partner to Support Health Care Access and COVID-19 Vaccination
AACI announced that it has been awarded a $20,000 grant from Bank of America to help bolster its critical healthcare and medical services related to a lagging C...
India Still Needs You: Fremont High Schooler Helps India Breathe
India is in one of the largest humanitarian crises in history. The devastating headlines and heartbreaking pictures show that millions are suffering. People are...
Amma Has a Dementia Diagnosis. What Now?
Sukham Blog – A monthly column focused on South Asian health and wellbeing. Last month, we talked about what we should do if we were concerned about Amma’s...
An Unexpected Union of NonProfits Raise COVID Funds: HungerMitao, Taiwan Center Foundation, & a Hindu Temple
In April 2021, the United States experienced a steady decline in the COVID-19 cases, resulting in portions of the economy opening up. However, for people in Ind...
A Desi Teen Finds Her Mojo in Skater Girl
The most recent movie about Indian villagers playing an unlikely sport because a Western benefactor taught it to them was Million Dollar Arm, about a baseball t...
Geeta Malik’s ‘India Sweets And Spices’ Stirs Up A Delicious Cinematic Recipe
I had been waiting to watch Geeta Malik’s India Sweets and Spices ever since it buzzed in the news that the film was being shot in my hometown of Atlanta....
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Indian Summer Grill And Chill Recipes
Dig-In Meals – A column highlighting Indian spices in recipes that take traditional Indian food and add a western twist! Summer is here and that means we’r...
What is Vaccine Tourism?
As the world shot down largely in 2020, tourism was badly hit with losses estimated at a whopping US$ 2 trillion-plus in global GDP. However, the new year and t...
Radiance of a Thousand Suns: Pieces of Missing History
“To memorialize, to remember, to sear it in our hearts so we never go down that path again. You think the schizophrenic Indo-Pak dynamic of love-hate-war-peac...
The Intersection of Parenting and Mental Health During a Pandemic
When Shruti got the chance to relocate to the U.S. at the end of 2019, little did she know that her life-changing decision would be one of the hardest she...
Don’t Forget People Are Still Dying In India
It started in mid-March 2021, the many videos of grandparents hugging their kids post-vaccination in the US. Families reunited safely after a year or more of wa...
For Toddlers, Pandemic Shapes Development During Formative Years
Lucretia Wilks, who runs a small day care out of her home in north St. Louis County, is used to watching young children embrace, hold hands and play together in...
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Mythologies of the World In the Secret of the Zipacna Dragons
The Secret of the Zipacna Dragons is my first novel set in the fiction world, Adijari. I reworked it countless times to make it a seamless and enjoyable read. I...
Grow, Eat, Share and Sell – Local Families Get New Resource for Heritage Seedlings
Valley Verde to sell culturally-meaningful and hard-to-find seedlings for families to ensure food security and comfort during pandemic and economic uncertainty...
Migration, Belonging, Pandemic: Kitaab’s Anthology Has It All
As a humble writer and avid reader of fiction, I’m always in awe of the short story. While on one level the short story is challenged by its need for...
Sardar Kaur Is the Irascible Dadi That I Might Be
I saw the title Sardar Ka Grandson pop up on Netflix. I kept on scrolling, assuming that this may be a Punjabi movie with a macho flair. Perhaps it was...
Racial Inequity Impacts Older Asian Americans
The impact of racial inequity on the lives of elderly Asian Americans has been rudely brought to our attention by the attacks on Asian elders. AARP is hosting s...
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Juneteenth Isn’t Enough: How Indian-Americans Can Use Their Pasts to Help Another Present
Though empires abolished slavery in the Caribbean islands during the 1830s, their move to the model of indentured servitude wasn’t much better. From 1838 to 1...
Dharmacracy in Mental Health
This article is part of the opinion column – Beyond Occident – where we explore a native perspective on the Indian diaspora. A recent study by the US Cent...
My Annual Pilgrimage to Shanti Ashrama in San Antonio Valley
I have been making a trip to the Shanti Ashrama every year on the last Saturday of April for nearly 15 years now. Vedanta Society of Northern California organ...
