by Vidya Pradhan | Sep 11, 2018 | Cover Story
I stumble out of bed at 4 a.m. groping for my glasses and slippers. Wondering what in the world possessed me to volunteer for such an early service, I am mindful of my sleepiness as I carefully drive the 30 minutes from Palo Alto to the Orchard St. homeless shelter in...
by Mark Hedin | Sep 10, 2018 | Cover Story
By Ethnic Media Services, San Francisco. Candidate Donald Trump rode his anti-immigrant rhetoric straight to the White House. Since then, he’s banned people from heavily Muslim-populated countries, taken children from their parents upon arrival at the Mexico border,...
by Vaishnavi Sridhar | Sep 3, 2018 | Cover Story
Hot, sweaty fingers run fruitlessly along the blurring lines. Under the spreading arms of a gnarled neem tree, she sits hunched over her Math homework, desperately holding back tears of humiliation. Yet another tutor glares at her reproachfully. “Why can’t you...
by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan | Aug 28, 2018 | Cover Story
I am an English professor. That means that after thirteen years of elementary and high school, four years of university, and seven more years of graduate education, I decided that I hadn’t yet had enough of school. Over the years, my position at the table has...
by Sujata Srinivasan | Aug 19, 2018 | Cover Story
Jet-lagged and in shock, I waited on a bright red couch in a small room labelled “Counselling” right off the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at the Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMC) in Vellore, India. A doctor from a team of critical care...
by Sri Ponnada | Jul 10, 2018 | Cover Story
My name is Sri Ponnada and I’m a software engineer at Microsoft. At Microsoft I work on products that empower people around the world to maximize how they use technology and to accomplish more each day. Today I am going to tell you a story about how someone with...
