by Suchitra Patri | Mar 27, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Features
In the light of school closures due to the Coronavirus, two high school seniors, Uditha Velidandla and Sarika Sriram, set up a free online program for elementary and middle schoolers through the Almaden South Asian Women’s Association. After learning about the 3-week...
by Ritu Marwah | Mar 18, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Features, Profiles
Pranoti Nagarkar looks across the kitchen counter at her partner Rishi Israni. Gosh they had come a long way. 2008 was a distant memory when they had fought about who was going to make the hot roti flatbread for dinner. Pranoti, who had rolled rotis since the age of 8...
by Srishti Prabha | Mar 16, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Features
Plans to and from India get made a year in advance and are being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Embassy of India in D.C. has released information on Visa restrictions for those traveling to and from India during the travels ban, along with phone numbers that...
by Tom Dobbins Jr. | Mar 15, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Features
Ashok Rajamani is the author of ‘The Day My Brain Exploded: A True Story,’ the Pulitzer Prize-Luminary Commended memoir now in development to be a major motion picture by Animus Films. He grew up near a cornfield in Illinois, one of the handful of brown or black kids...
by Saumya Balasubramanian | Mar 5, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Features
I stepped out for a walk with my elementary school son. He was telling me about a program that seems to be the craze among his friends: Lego, Ninjago. “Ninjaaaa—goooo!”, said the little fellow and spun around on the spot kicking his legs up in the air. “ I wonder why...
by Srishti Prabha | Mar 1, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Features, People, Profiles
Why do I feel a kinship with Ash Kalra, D-CA 27? Maybe because we are both Indian, Canadian-born, Bay Area transplants? Though 20 years my senior, Ash Kalra speaks my language. He mirrors my experience, taking a non traditional path of social justice. Not an engineer...
