by Pavani Kaushik | Jul 1, 2017 | Cover Story, General
A Brown Culture and Its Light Canvases: Does Art Reveal Color Bias? My five year old daughter can be many things. Energetic, loud, playful, adamant and by turns devilish and angelic. But, curiosity dominates her worldview. And this curiosity leads her to question the...
by Rasana Atreya | Jun 18, 2017 | Cover Story, Videos
Why Women Don’t Walk Away From Abusive Marriages The woman on the phone will talk only if I promise not to identify her—not her first or last names, not the town she lives in. This woman, let’s call her Geeta, lives in the United States with her husband and two young...
by Shumit DasGupta | May 5, 2017 | Articles, Features
First, full transparency. When the editor asked me to check out Literary Safari—a company that makes multicultural apps, she mentioned one possible angle to cover as, “the best results are felt when parents actively mediate digital content for kids instead of...
by Jaya Padmanabhan | May 2, 2017 | Cover Story
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 about finished and was headed to the checkout counter when a cart...
by Nirupama | Apr 2, 2017 | Cover Story
Founder – Publisher’s Note 1987: A new immigrant in a foreign land. Incredible loneliness. Phone calls to India are $3.50 per minute. Aerograms cost 36c. It takes 28 days to get a reply. Were there others like me? How did they cope? I scan the local...
by Geetika Pathania Jain | Mar 1, 2017 | Cover Story
American Counter-Culture and Yoga Jones Much before yoga could be accepted as a wholesome and family-friendly practice available at a yoga studio next to a Starbucks cafe at the local strip mall, many yogis would work assiduously to strip away yoga’s sinister...
