by Nandini Patwardhan | Jan 13, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Desi Voices, Opinion, Voices
I recently returned from a six-week sojourn in Mumbai. It is the city where I grew up and where my family still lives. In fact, my “family home” is where my mother grew up. The small four-hundred square foot chawl home has witnessed more than five generations of my...
by Nandini Patwardhan | Oct 28, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Voices
Desi Roots, Global Wings “Ethnic Pride” is defined as the positive feeling that fills a person’s heart because of her being a member of a particular ethnic group. Even while members of certain groups and cultures are exuberant in expression of their ethnic pride, a...
by Nandini Patwardhan | Aug 2, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Cover Story
Recently, I read an article in Yoga Journal magazine titled “What’s the Difference Between Cultural Appropriation and Cultural Appreciation?” It set me thinking deeply about the concept of cultural appropriation. The same topic had been brought up when...
by Nandini Patwardhan | Jul 19, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Community
At the time the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon in 1969, I was a 10-year-old schoolgirl in Bombay (as it was then called). Even though I lived far away from the United States, and this was well before the advent of broadcast television, I knew of and was...
by Nandini Patwardhan | May 7, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Reflections, Views
I grew up during the 1960s in Mumbai. I lived with my parents, two siblings and my maternal grandparents. Our home was small — four rooms, each ten feet square, in a chawl tenement. The living room doubled as a bedroom at night. The home was too small for...
