COVID19 Testing is Our Salvation
We are weeks into widespread social distancing in many parts of the world, though it feels like months. Cases of COVID19 continue to mount, as expected, and we ...
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Voices
The Hidden Truth The feature article on breast cancer by Ophira Ginsburg and Raywat Deonandan (India Currents, October 2012, Breast Cancer—The Hidden Epidemic...
Breast Cancer – The Hidden Epidemic
"When I told my husband I had breast cancer, he said, ‘I don’t want anything to do with you. You can go die.’” These are the words of a 45...
The Ethics of Surrogacy
There’s a photo I often show my audience before starting my lectures on “reproductive tourism.” It’s from a marketing brochure of the Akanksha infertili...
The Man Who Would Not Eat
I am a scientist. I declare it so proudly. But I think many people have a distorted conception of what a scientist is, and, frankly, what science itself is. Sci...
Advantage India
These are interesting times to be a university professor in North America, with both anecdotal and objective data suggesting a steady decline in student motivat...
Long Division
Stop teaching them all this kitchen work, let them focus on their studies,” Bauji would tell Biji. “You don’t know ji. If a mother does not teach her daug...
Afternoons at Mr. P’s
It’s been two years. There is a clean incision that cuts you off from that time, as if the person you were prior to the visit finally reached his expiration...
Man on the Moon
Forty years ago, my father took a walk to Central Park. He was a day away from his 37th birthday, and had just moved his young family from an impoverished...
Unsettled
Kalpana wrapped her arms around her husband’s waist as their motorcycle sped down the Pacific Coast Highway, her fingers tightly clutching his jacket. She fel...
Ghost
The way I remember it I was going to the airport to drop Robbie off. We took the BART in, him carrying the heaviest of his bags out of pride...
Warriors and Terrorists
One of my favorite actors was the late Sir Peter Ustinov. Sir Peter was not just a thespian, but an outspoken intellectual, journalist, representative for the U...
Letters
THE ROAD TO NON-VIOLENCE The last line of Lakshmi Mani’s review of Pico Iyer’s The Open Road (India Currents, April 2008) is the punch line: “When a plane...
The Politicization of Science
Years ago, I interviewed for a job with a law firm that was looking for an epidemiologist with skills in science research design. Their intent was that I would ...
The False War Between Civilizations
About 20 years ago I was in my mid-teens and becoming vaguely aware of the way grown men are perceived and expected to act. One day, while riding the Toronto...
