Ayanna Gandhi, Author at India Currents

boy praying to Ganeshsa

An American Girl’s Relationship With Hinduism

by Ayanna Gandhi May 14, 2022May 21, 2022

I am not the most devout Hindu of all time. I don’t go to temple everyday and I occasionally eat beef as an American teenager. I do celebrate Diwali and […]

LOCAL

Bay Area Uncles, How You Talk to Young Women Matters

by Ayanna Gandhi March 29, 2022

PROFILES, YOUTH

Professor Lavanya Vemsani Receives Fulbright Award For Her Work With Indian History & Religion

by Ayanna Gandhi August 31, 2021April 15, 2022

GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM, Young Professionals, YOUTH

1000 Hummingbirds Embody Serene Singh’s Energy

by Ayanna Gandhi August 23, 2021April 15, 2022

Never Have I Ever Season 2 Poster

Never Have I Ever’s Second Season Had a Few Redeeming Moments

by Ayanna Gandhi July 22, 2021April 15, 2022

Top: Photograph of indentured Indian labourers at Spring Garden Buildings. Jamaica, 1880 (Image from the National Archive); Bottom: Contrabands at headquarters of Gen. Lafayette, 1862. Contrabands was an expression coined by Gen. Benjamin F. Butler to describe escaped slaves (Photo by Mathew B. Brady courtesy Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library/Yale University via Wikimedia Commons)

AWARD WINNING, AWARDS & PRESS, In-Depth Reporting, YOUTH

Juneteenth Isn’t Enough: How Indian-Americans Can Use Their Pasts to Help Another Present

by Ayanna Gandhi and Srishti Prabha June 17, 2021January 5, 2023

YOUTH

An Imperfect Street: The Delhi Airport Race

by Ayanna Gandhi April 9, 2021April 15, 2022