Awards

IC Wins 10 at the 2020 SF Press Club Awards!

by Vandana Kumar | September 29, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Award Winning, Features | 0 Comments

This past year was challenging for us - adapting to changes with our medium of storytelling, turnover of the editorial staff, and limited resources for our nonprofit media company. This is not...

Amar, Akbar, Anthony – We are all the same

by Nirupama V. | January 31, 2018 | Award Winning, Politics | 3 Comments

Kevin Yoder, Republican Congressman has invited Sunayana Damala to attend the State of the Union address by President Trump this evening. His Twitter message reads, "I asked Sunayana to be my guest...

Be A Man

by Nirupama | November 2, 2017 | Award Winning, Editorial | 1 Comment

Males and the power they exercised in the last election cycle continues to be discussed. Male sexual impropriety in the fields of technology, Hollywood and television are hard to miss. Discussions...

Creating Beta Clones

by Kalpana M. | October 15, 2017 | Award Winning, Desi Lens | 4 Comments

At the time I got the news about the new indulgences of parents, I was drinking a nice cup of ginger chai which shot up my nose and burned my nasal passages. I’d just learned that many...

Dare to Speak Up?

by Jaya Padmanabhan | May 2, 2017 | Award Winning, Cover Story | 0 Comments

A REPORT ON HATE CRIMES AND HATE SPEECH NOW On March 19, 2017, Shivani Aggarwal decided to make a Costco run to pick up supplies for her son’s birthday party planned for later that day. She had just...

Trump is Right: Democrats’ Political Correctness Is To Blame

by Sarita Sarvate | March 12, 2017 | Award Winning, Last Word | 8 Comments

I was at my weekly watercolor class when, across the table, a woman said, “I don’t even know anyone who voted for Trump.” “I do,” I replied. I wasn’t kidding. My Chinese Dietician, an educated...

Are You One of Those?

by Jaya Padmanabhan | March 2, 2015 | Award Winning, Editorial, Features | 0 Comments

Late one snowy evening, three girls and three boys were sitting in a New York dorm room casually conversing over insomnia cookies. All was cozy till the boys, in a burst of camaraderie, began to...

How Jay-Z Trumped Modi

by Jaya Padmanabhan | June 3, 2014 | Award Winning, Editorial, Features | 0 Comments

Let’s wrap our heads around this. India conducted the largest elections—814,500,000 people had a ballot. Voter turnout hit a stunning 66.38%—More than 500 million people voted! The new Prime...

Passion and Paranoia

by Vandana Kumar | April 2, 2014 | Award Winning, Editorial, Features | 0 Comments

“How do you write?” asked an audience member at a recent book discussion at Stanford. Tobias Wolff, professor of literature at Stanford and author of several books, picked up the microphone and...

100 Years After the Nobel Prize

by Anita Felicelli | July 1, 2013 | Award Winning, Cover Story, Features | 0 Comments

Like many Indian parents, my parents introduced a few of Tagore’s poems as an example of great poetry. I vaguely recall that the poems I read were about nature; there was a reference to a moon and...

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

*2020- Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Feature Story / Light Nature • Third Place: “Desi Root’s Global Wings”, Ranjani Rao, Nandini Patwardhan, Vandana Kumar, Nirupama Vaidhyanathan

*2020- Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Business/Technology Story • Second Place: “This American Life of Mine”, Vandana Kumar, Sarita Sarvate, Rajesh Oza, Nirupama Vaidhyanathan

*2020- Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Columns-News/Political • First Place: “Growing Political Power”, Meera Kymal

*2020- Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Overall Excellence • First Place: “Can Public Charge Deny Your Green Card” “Making of a Jihadi”, Vandana Kumar

* 2018—41st Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Columns/Political • First Place: Trump is Right, Sarita Sarvate

* 2018—41st Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Columns/Political • Second Place: Creating Beta Clones, Kalpana Mohan

* 2018—41st Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Columns/Political • Third Place: Be a Man, Nirupama Vaidhyanathan

* 2018—41st Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Commentary • First Place: Amar Akbar Anthony, We are all the same, Nirupama Vaidhyanathan

* 2018—41st Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Features • First Place: Now and Then Jaya Padmanabhan

* 2018—41st Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Features • Second Place: Dare to Speak Up?, Jaya Padmanabhan

* 2017—40th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Overall Excellence • Third Place: India Currents , Vandana Kumar

* 2017—40th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards – Commentary: First Place: Nirupama Vaidhyanathan, “Why I will listen to Rush Limbaugh.”

* 2017—40th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards – Features: Second Place: A Community’s Concerns: From portrayals, representations to youth struggles by the following authors:

Geetika Pathania Jain – Erasing the Accent

Vamsee Juluri – Does History Matter?

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan – How Much Is Too Much? The Price of Pushing Kids to Attain Elite Status

* 2017—40th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards – Political: Third Place: Questions of Affiliation and Electoral Choices by the following authors:

Jaya Padmanabhan – It’s the Race Card, People!

Nirupama Vaidhyanathan – The Clear Choice and Vote!

* 2017—40th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards – Feature Story / Light Nature: Second Place: Ranjani Iyer Mohanty, “No Country for Gray People.”

* 2016—39th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Overall Excellence • First Place: India Currents Magazine, Vandana Kumar, Jaya Padmanabhan, Geetika Jain.

* 2016—39th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Editorials • First Place: Are You One of Those? Jaya Padmanabhan.

* 2015—38th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Overall Excellence • First Place: India Currents Magazine, Vandana Kumar, Jaya Padmanabhan.

* 2014—37th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards—Overall Excellence • Second Place: India Currents Magazine, Vandana Kumar, Jaya Padmanabhan. The magazine was described as being a comprehensive publication with a compilation of interesting topics, unique angles, excellent writers and fearless leadership.

* 2015—38th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards • First Place: Editorials Who Am I, How Jay-Z Trumped Modi, and Passion and Paranoia by Jaya Padmanabhan

* 2015—38th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards • Second Place: Feature Story of a Light Nature, Kalpana Mohan

* 2015—38th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards • Second Place: Feature Story of a Serious Nature, Sarita Sarvate

* 2015—38th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards • Third Place: Analysis/Investigative Feature, Anita Felicelli

*2014: 37th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards • First Place: Editorials, Sandberged and Prototyped, Jaya Padmanabhan

* 2014—37th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards • First Place: India Currents Columns: 100 Years After the Nobel by Anita Felicelli; The Supplement Cocktail by Arpit Mehta; The Price of Living Long by Lakshmi Mani.

* 2014—37th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards • Third Place: From the Man Village Into the Jungle, Kalpana Mohan.

* 2014—37th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards • First Place: The Last Straw, Kavya Padmanabhan.

* 2014—37th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards • First Place: Analysis by India Currents Staff: Approximating H-4 and Epsilon’s Worldly Possessions by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Heroes Among Us by Ranjani Iyer Mohanty, The Man Who Wouldn’t be King by Benedito Ferrao, Memories are Made of This by Mimm Patterson, Tea by Sarita Sarvate.

* 2013—New America Media Awards: Sarita Sarvate’s essay—I‘m Gulliver, I’m Sindbad received an Honorable Mention for Outstanding Reporting on Arts, Culture, Food and Entertainment.

* 2013—New America Media Awards: Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan’s article—Overseas Anybody received an Honorable Mention for Outstanding Reporting on International Affairs.

* In 2012, Vandana Kumar received the Silicon Valley 2012 Award – ‘Making a Difference’ in the Media category.

* In 2012, Vandana Kumar was awarded the Asian American Hero Award for outstanding contribution to the arts by the Santa Clara County.

* In 2012, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan’s commentary Writing ‘Ethnic’ in America won the runner-up 18th Annual California Journalism Award for Excellence in Blog Reporting

* In 2012, Jaya Padmanabhan’s cover story The American Dream? won the first place New America Media Award (Northern and Central California) for Outstanding Hyperlocal Feature Reporting.

* In 2012, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan’s commentary Writing ‘Ethnic’ in America won the runner-up New America Media Award (Northern and Central California) for Outstanding Editorial/Commentary.

* In 2012, Raywat Deonandan’s cover story The Ethics of Surrogacy won the runner-up New America Media Award (Northern and Central California) for Outstanding International Reporting.

* In 2011, India Currents received the award for Excellence in Journalism from the California Legislature for promoting Unity through Journalism.

* In 2011,Vandana Kumar received the Community Catalyst Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Indo-American Community Federation.

* In 2009, Huma Yasmin Attari’s article In Praise of the Hajj Cough won the runner-up New America Media Award (Southern and Central California) for youth reporting.

* In 2009, Kalpana Mohan’s article Karnatik Revival won the New America Media Award (Northern California) for arts, sports, and entertainment.

* In 2008, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan’s editorial Model What? won the New America Media Award (Northern California) for youth reporting.

* In 2007, Sandip Roy-Chowdhury won his second South Asian Journalists Association award for outstanding editorial commentary on South Asians in North America.

* In 2007, Ranjit Souri’s essay Fireworks and Beethoven was named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2007

* In 2006, Radhika Kumar’s article A Window Opens Doors, won the New America Media Award in the Women’s Issues category.

* In 2005, Raju Chebium’s commentary Jumping Red Lights won first place at the South Asian Journalists Association Awards.

* In 2005 Youth Editor Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan’s essays Rethinking the Veil, Towered Out, and Sound Familiar? won the runner-up New California Media Award for best youth voice.

* In 2004, India Currents was nominated for the Utne Reader’s Independent Press Award for International Coverage.

* In 2001, Sarita Sarvate won the runner-up New California Media Award for Best Commentary Writing in magazines with circulation over 25,000.

* In 2000, Features Editor Sandip Roy-Chowdhury won the South Asian Journalists Association award for outstanding story on South Asians in North America (print).

* In 1999, Sukumar Ramanathan was runner-up for the New California Media Award in the Features category.

* In 1998, Business Editor Sukumar Ramanathan won the New California Media Award for Feature Writing and Contributing Editor Sarita Sarvate won the award for Commentary Writing.

* In 1994, India Currents was nominated for the Arts and Business Award given by the Arts Council of Santa Clara County in two categories: Ongoing Business Support for the Arts, and Innovation in Support for the Arts. KQED and The Examiner honored the India Currents Editor Arvind Kumar as an Unsung Hero in 1995.

* In 1991, the Federation of Indo-American Associations honored India Currents with its Cultural Awareness Through Journalism award.