by Kanchan Naik | May 28, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Views, Youth
“Dekhiye,” snaps Kajol, staring fiercely into Shah Rukh’s playful gaze. “Please leave me alone.” Her words are powerful, and her message is clear. It’s a warning sign, one as clear as crystal and firm as stone. Yet her words are accompanied with the romantic...
by Rasana Atreya | May 21, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Features, Not For Profit, Voices
Dr. Rukmini Banerji, CEO of Pratham, is in the San Francisco Bay Area for a conference at Stanford on global poverty. I met Dr. Banerji in San Jose during her visit. First, a few facts about Pratham: Pratham started off in the slums of Mumbai, 1995. The educational...
by Nandini Patwardhan | May 7, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Reflections, Views
I grew up during the 1960s in Mumbai. I lived with my parents, two siblings and my maternal grandparents. Our home was small — four rooms, each ten feet square, in a chawl tenement. The living room doubled as a bedroom at night. The home was too small for...
by Jaya Padmanabhan | May 6, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Opinion, Voices
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments last Tuesday about the Census Bureau’s plan to include the citizenship question in the 2020 census. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg struck at the heart of the issue when she probed why the question — part of every census from 1820 to...
by Staff Writer | May 1, 2019 | Articles, Voices
Air India’s low quality service is well known. The comment below from an Air India passenger is different. It describes insensitivity to its customers, age and gender being no bar. India Currents thanks our reader Sharmila Kumar for posting her bad experience. Air...
by Mukund Acharya | Apr 30, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Reflections, Views
As a professor of Aerospace Engineering at a Midwestern university in the ‘90s, I taught a course titled “Introduction to Engineering,” designed to give incoming freshmen an appreciation for what engineering was all about. Every month, we invited a leading engineer...
