by Viji Sundaram | Nov 15, 2014 | Features, General
Editor’s Note: As in other immigrant communities, open discussion of mental health issues is taboo for many Indian American families, despite the fact that incidences of depression and similar disorders are on the rise. For one young woman, that stigma led to years of...
by Viji Sundaram | May 21, 2013 | Opinion, Perspectives
Modern technology has brought us a new kind of rape whistle—an electrified bra that shocks anyone who touches it and sends out a GPS signal to police. But the invention is just as ludicrous as its predecessor—and once again puts the impetus of preventing rape on...
by Viji Sundaram | Jan 3, 2013 | Features, General
SAN FRANCISCO – As a co-founder of Narika, a Bay Area-based helpline for South Asian victims of domestic violence, I have come across many incidents of sexual assault against women in my community. It happens with numbing regularity. But few things have struck a chord...
by Viji Sundaram | Feb 16, 2012 | Community, Features
Editor’s Note: This article is part of a special report on human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area produced by New America Media in collaboration with SF Public Press. Viji Sundaram is health editor of New America Media. More than a decade after she was...
by Viji Sundaram | Dec 21, 2011 | Community, Features
The Russian archbishop who tried to malign Lord Krishna and the Indian sacred text, the Bhagavad Gita, should have known that hell hath no fury like 885 million Hindus scorned. That fury has been unleashed worldwide this week over remarks by Archbishop Nikon of the...
