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India Currents Wins 2020 California Journalism Awards for COVID-19 Reporting
India Currents received multiple awards for its coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic from the 2020 California Journalism Awards. The California News Publishers Association recognized various India Currents stories, columns, and […]
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To Ma, From Your Daughter
ma To the woman who loved what had not yet become, making promises with unfolding fabric: We shared skin, but from you I grew into my own — an inherited […]
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India Currents Wins 10 Awards from SF Press Club
The San Francisco Press Club recognized ten writers from India Currents for their writing at an online award ceremony held last month. The San Francisco Press Club’s Greater Bay Area […]
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Starving
Starving the Indian in me spares no expense with words every sentence decked in red and gold every phrase clanging like the silver bells tied around the necks of cows […]
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Finding Our Voice: Desi Poetry Reading
To join the poetry reading on Tuesday June 30, 2020 at 6 pm PST and 9 pm EST, click the button below! [button link=”https://ncc-zoom.zoom.us/j/97345591211?pwd=ekdQdnZ2ZFNJWkpXSkpsemh3b0dwQT09″ type=”big” color=”red” newwindow=”yes”] ZOOM Poetry Reading[/button] […]
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Celebrating 100 Years of Ravi Shankar
“Life is much larger than birth & death, failure & success. You are the unblemished, pure, eternal self. Knowing this, you will walk like a King.” Sri Sri Ravi Shankar […]
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Zilka Joseph’s ‘Sparrows and Dust’ is a Heavy Read, But She Makes it Fly
I don’t know the color of a hummingbird’s throat. But when Zilka Joseph brings alive the “green-steel warrior”, I feel as though I’ve recognized the crimson feathers on its dainty […]
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Making Space For the Unknown: Desi Poetry Reading
Join India Currents and Matwaala, once again, in our Desi Poetry Reading Series. This time we bring you six poets addressing the ever-present uncertainty and change. The South Asian diaspora […]
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Eat in Peace…or in Pieces?
Eat in Peace…or in Pieces? Pass the butter, hand the bread Don’t be dramatic — nobody is dead Carve the turkey, open the booze But switch the channel if it’s […]
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SJ Teen Pioneers Globally Lauded Biodiversity Project
Young people are integral towards the fight for a sustainable future. From social media to student platforms, teenagers have used their collective voice to pioneer a new wave of eco-friendly […]
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An Ode to Women of Color
Skin of Soil Nature’s first vision is brown her first awakening upon the nascent earth, a blur of tawny and bronze and walnut and wheat. Nature’s first memory is soil […]
