How Certain Are We About Uncertainty?
Certain and Uncertain They seem to be separate antonymic words, but they are like Siamese twins. Their separate bodies, facing from opposite sides, are fused together, nurtured by the same sanguineous source. Their interdependence is the reason why they survive. If...
Spicy Beats Brings the Indian Heat
Indo-Canadian Musician, Raj Ramayya loves to be busy. When he’s not traveling the world performing at anime and game conventions for some of his hit soundtracks like Cowboy Bebop and Resident Evil, he is hard at work writing and producing music for some of the top...
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Cultural Norms, A Generational Curse For DV Victims
(Featured Image: Maitri at Sevathon 2019 walking to support Domestic Violence Victims) As Domestic Violence Awareness Month comes to a close, India Currents presents a 2-part series discussing abuse and its impact within the South Asian American community. This is the...
An Extraordinary Homecoming
Barbara Kipper’s promised gift of 464 objects from her remarkable collection of Asian jewelry and ritual objects to the new Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) in Bangalore, is exceptional in more ways than one. Besides being a gift, it’s the first time the Chicago...
A Cup of Tea With Papa
I met Neelu’s Papa just once, two or three years ago. I went to her home for a meeting we’d planned. It wasn’t Neelu who opened the door, but a trim gray-haired gentleman. “Neelu had to step out unexpectedly to pick up her daughter,” he told me, “she asked me to...
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Spicy Beats Brings the Indian Heat
Indo-Canadian Musician, Raj Ramayya loves to be busy. When he’s not traveling the world performing at anime and game conventions for some of his hit soundtracks like Cowboy Bebop and Resident Evil, he is hard at work writing and producing music for some of the top...
Indian American Devises Collapsible Chamber to Manage Panic Attacks
An Indian American has designed and fabricated a sanctuary that one can retreat into during moments of panic, in a bid to address Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a widespread condition in America and the world over. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a mental...
Art That People Step On
While walking, have you ever walked around or over a spot that looks dirty because of leaks, spills, smudges, or splatter? How about bird poop? The next time you come across what looks like a dirty area, don’t just keep walking. Stop and look, and have your smartphone...
The H-1B Visa is Under Attack. Again!
In the run up to the election, the Trump administration has doubled down on immigration, taking another swipe at the H-1B visa program to boost its America First platform. That means US companies, which have long relied on the H-1B visa to hire highly skilled...
Voices
American Democracy Is Not As Fragile As You Think
The past year has been less of a roller coaster ride than a grey fugue the country stumbled through, like a blind man negotiating a highway in the wrong direction. At the end of the year, after battling a plague and an economic meltdown, terrible uncertainty and a...
Our Land Remains Green in Our Souls
Poetry as Sanctuary – A column where we explore poetry as a means of expression for voices of the South Asian Diaspora. Like everyone else who loves poetry, I too see it as an art. An art of saying everything without saying much. A means of conveying the felt, without...
Ram-Rajya in America? Yes, You Heard it Right!
In October, I performed Kathak in celebrations to commemorate Dussehra, the Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of Ram over Ravan, Durga over Mahishasur, Good over Evil. As did all other aspects of our lives this year, these performances were moved online....
I Will Not Cancel Us!
Desi Roots, Global Wings – a monthly column focused on the Indian immigrant experience Cancel culture is a form of boycott in which a person is expelled from one or more of their social or professional circles. This happens in real and virtual arenas. A friend...
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Sattriya, and Its Fight for Recognition as a Classical Dance
Why I Dance – A monthly column, in collaboration with IndianRaga, in which we uncover the variety of Indian Classical Dance forms and their lineage. This first edition of the Why I Dance Column features Sattriya, an Indian Classical dance form originating in the...
Chhalaang: On the Unusual Topic of Physical Education
Amazon Prime Video released Chhalaang, starring Nushrat Bharucha & Rajkummar Rao, on Diwali as a part of the festive line up for the festival of lights. Nushrat Barucha told me that the movie is about taking a “leap of faith” and making choices that will change...
Sakaar Singh Leaves Punjab to Become R&B Singer, Simba Sing
Sakaar Singh, son of Bhangra Artist - Jasbir Jassi, “Simba Sing”, is an emerging R&B and Pop Singer. Singh left his home state of Punjab at the age of 16 to embark on absorbing and contributing to musical styles far beyond his homeland. Sarkaar’s released singles,...
Dandiya Raas Meets Mexico’s Folklorico
Making The Mosaic - A column that dips into the disparate, diverse palette of our communities to paint inclusively on the vast canvas of the Bay Area by utilizing Heritage Arts. In 2016, Mosaic Silicon Valley commissioned their first two artists - Indian folk dance...
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Each of Us Killers: Vignettes of Immigrant and Indian Lives
Jenny Bhatt’s debut collection of stories, Each of Us Killers brings us a sampling of experiences of a writer who has lived and worked in India, the United Kingdom, Germany, and now resides in a suburb of Dallas. Bhatt has worked as a writer, literary critic, and...
Choice and Democracy: Musings on Elections 2020
It is official. Joe Biden is the 46th man to occupy the Oval Office. Well, at least as official as it can get given the incumbent’s congenital aversion to concede. My first reaction to this victory was of course one of elation. Elation at the thought that policy by...
Ram-Rajya in America? Yes, You Heard it Right!
In October, I performed Kathak in celebrations to commemorate Dussehra, the Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of Ram over Ravan, Durga over Mahishasur, Good over Evil. As did all other aspects of our lives this year, these performances were moved online....
Insider to Outsider: Reversing the Trend in Hindu Discourse
This article is part of the opinion column – Beyond Occident – where we explore a native perspective on the Indian diaspora. Late last month, days before the US presidential elections, a prominent media outlet published an article on Indian and Hindu-American...
This Diwali, We All Could Use Some Light
From Surabhi’s Notepad – A column that brings us personal essays and stories, frivolous and serious, inspired by real-life events and encounters of navigating the world as a young, Indian woman living outside India. Dressed in an orange salwar kameez, donning a small...
Tirunangai Women ARE Women, J.K. Rowling
(Featured Image: Swetha, a transwoman and Founder of the nonprofit Born 2 Win, with actor Kamal Haasan, a supporter) Sarah McBride, Democratic candidate from Delaware, will become the first transgender state senator in the U.S. All over the world, including in India,...
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Opinion
How Certain Are We About Uncertainty?
Certain and Uncertain They seem to be separate antonymic words, but they are like Siamese twins. Their separate bodies, facing from opposite sides, are fused together, nurtured by the same sanguineous source. Their interdependence is the reason why they survive. If...
Choice and Democracy: Musings on Elections 2020
It is official. Joe Biden is the 46th man to occupy the Oval Office. Well, at least as official as it can get given the incumbent’s congenital aversion to concede. My first reaction to this victory was of course one of elation. Elation at the thought that policy by...
Insider to Outsider: Reversing the Trend in Hindu Discourse
This article is part of the opinion column – Beyond Occident – where we explore a native perspective on the Indian diaspora. Late last month, days before the US presidential elections, a prominent media outlet published an article on Indian and Hindu-American...
Bra or No Bra, That Is the Question
No single event in history has disrupted our lives as has COVID-19. Maybe, the two world wars had a far more disastrous effect on our psyche, but the arrival of Coronavirus forced us to adopt new ways of living by isolating ourselves in the closed confines of our...
Health & Wellness
Vaccines Bring Hope As COVID’s Third Wave Hits
In welcome news and within a week of each other, pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Moderna announced breakthrough vaccines to combat the deadly coronavirus. Pfizer and its German collaborator BioNTech, say their vaccine may be 90% effective in preventing COVID19 in...
UMA Oils CEO Believes in the Need For Wellness Wisdom
(Featured Image: Shrankhla Holecek on UMA Oils Farms in India) Los Angeles based Shrankhla Holecek is the CEO of UMA Oils. A long-time Ayurvedic expert who educates on Ayurvedic traditions with contemporary sensibility, she is a lifelong vegetarian, yogi, and...
Communication in Desi Households
Desi Talk - A column that works on embracing our brown background and unique identity using Coach Yashu's helpful tips. Find her talking to IC Editor, Srishti Prabha on Instagram LIVE Tuesdays at 6pm PST/ 9pm EST! Recently I saw a post that seemed like a cry for help...
Falling Through the COVID19 Cracks
When COVID19 snared President Trump in early October, he promptly received a dose of Regeneron and an airlift to Walter Reed Army Hospital; physicians dispensed a course of therapeutics - Remdesivir and the steroid dexamethasone, and supplemental oxygen as needed....
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Dancing in Plain Sight
“The world is full of paper. I am writing now. I am writing to me. I am writing to myself and others like me,” author Sejal Shah professes in an essay "The World is Full of Paper. Write to Me", which is featured in her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance. When...
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At 52 Hz, My Throat is Parched
The 2020 US elections were not just about differing political views. People’s lives were impacted on the basis of their skin color, their gender, their sexuality, or their religion. It bred uncertainty and fear in people who had been targeted for years. Human beings...
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