Dear India Currents, To keep her self entertained my daughter draws a cartoon every day thinking about all the things that are happening around her now. Her goal, she said, is about putting a smile on someone’s face in this gloomy time. This is what she did...
Dear India Currents, In these difficult times, many of us are busy worrying about and taking care of others. It is important to remember that first and foremost we also need to take good care of ourselves and to make the time for self-care and self-compassion. ...
Dear Team Members, Your mail surely touched my heart, so simple and yet genuine. It is a period of deep anxiety as we strictly follow the Government’s decision for all to stay indoors and maintain a fair distance from one another. Difficult perhaps for parents of...
To the Consul General Sanjay Panda: Thank you so much for organizing Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas celebration on Sunday January 12, 2020. I went to the event with great pride of being a Pravasi Bharatiya but with moderate expectations of engagement. I was pleasantly...
Remedy for Vowel Woes This is in response to the essay by Ashwin Krishnan (Extreme Vetting-Desi Shtyle, October 2017). Deat Ashwin, I have a partial remedy for your vowel woes, especially the one involving proper nouns; simply listen to some English county cricket...
Set Indian Casteism Right First This is in response to the editorial (Racism of the Every Day Kind, September 2017). As an American sociologist, I commend Nirupama Vaidhyanathan’s opinion concerning American social life! As we all know American society is a young...