Desi Roots, Global Wings – a monthly column focused on the Indian immigrant experience. In December of each year, my family sits around a glass jar for our annual appraisal ritual. The ordinary jar purchased from Ikea and previously used for storing mango pickle,...
(Featured Image: Maitri at Sevathon 2019 walking to support Domestic Violence Victims) As Domestic Violence Awareness Month comes to a close, India Currents presents a 2-part series discussing abuse and its impact within the South Asian American community. This is the...
I met Neelu’s Papa just once, two or three years ago. I went to her home for a meeting we’d planned. It wasn’t Neelu who opened the door, but a trim gray-haired gentleman. “Neelu had to step out unexpectedly to pick up her daughter,” he told me, “she asked me to...
Widespread hunger and unemployment drove millions of Americans into food-lines during the Great Depression of 1930; but no one could have predicted that scenario repeating itself some 90 years later, in the land of plenty, plump with the prospect of the American...
Will your vote be counted as we move to mail-in-voting this election year? The odds may not be in your favor. The advent of COVID-19 has disrupted an already contentious US election cycle and precipitated conditions that could derail the voting process in Election...
It’s Tuesday morning, and teacher Tamya Daly has her online class playing an alphabet game. The students are writing quickly and intently, with occasional whoops of excitement, on the little whiteboards she dropped off at their homes the day before along with coloring...
