Sita, the Contemporary Indian Woman
In the fertile landscape of Indian writing in English, poetry is a less prolific genre. This is not due to a dearth of talent, but because poetry has generally been considered less likely to attract a popular readership. However, lyric poetry in Sita’s Choice is more...
World Health Organization: The Lost Genie
Love him or hate him, you can’t ignore US President, Donald Trump. Known for not mincing his words and rarely playing diplomatically, he recently tweeted that, Corona Virus is a very bad ‘gift’ from China to the World. ...
Corona & Your Life
A Parallel Pandemic in the Shadows: Women Affected
Coronavirus brings the simmering issue of gender inequity to a violent boil. A barrage of data can leave you with less information than the data dictates. For some, it has become a hobby to get instant updates on Coronavirus infection rates, death rates, and trends. ...
30-Somethings Go Home To Mom & Dad
It took three weeks, but Lawrence and Arlene Maze finally persuaded their younger son, Gregory, of Los Angeles, to get on a flight home to Austin.“He basically shut his business down to come here and has to restart his business when it’s safe,” his father said. “It...
Words to Art: What Are You Feeling?
As the recent lockdown hit, my community art space in Arlington, Virginia, Studio Pause, closed to the public. People asked me to take our weekly writing PAUSE sessions online, shared links for bookmaking videos from my website, and even quoted my Instagram posts on...
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We’re Living The Undercount Say Texas Advocates
Fiercely committed to a complete count of Texas residents for Census 2020, advocates across ethnic groups are re-thinking tactics and strategies of how to increase self-response rates during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We all know that we are in a really difficult time...
Be Counted, Be Heard
Editor’s Note: In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, California’s State Treasurer Fiona Ma wrote this call-to-action to Chinese Americans, especially those living in her home town San Francisco: Fill out the census, or risk losing hard won gains! Chinese...
OCI Holders Can Fly Back to India
The Government of India has decided to also permit following categories of Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) cardholders who are stranded abroad including in the US to travel back to India by Special Flights: Minor children born to Indian nationals abroad and holding...
Five-Year Impact Report Aims to Connect Santa Clara to Nature
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Corona Chronicles
I have a confession to make: secretly, I was kinda happy when India went into a total lockdown on March 25. Come on, I was feeling only what your average overworked, stressed out middle-class working woman felt. The disease was bad, but I was happy to take my...
It Does Take a Village to Raise a Child
As I watched the Netflix documentary that follows Michele Obama’s book tour to promote her memoir, “Becoming”, I was reminded of a former American first lady who published a book while her husband was in office. When Hilary Clinton’s book, It Takes a Village And...
Adversity, A Blessing in Disguise
Worlds over, the COVID-19 lockdown has brought out the creative potentials of millions of the people. Numerous anecdotes have been shared in the media about how migrant workers were returning to their homes on foot walking hundreds of kilometres, a mother from...
Mother Says So…
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Vinod Krishnan Mixes R&B with Carnatic Music
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Indo-Scot Rocker & Bollywood’s Dark Side
Kapil Seshasayee is an art rock musician in the Indian classical tradition. He was born in Ramnad in South of India, but grew up in Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Like teenagers of the diaspora the umbilical chord to the Indian grandmotherland tugs at Kapil...
Shashi Tharoor and Others Read You a Tagore Classic
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Tea for Two
In Seeing Ceremony, Meera Ekkanath Klein’s sequel to her 2017 debut novel, My Mother’s Kitchen, the narrator, Meena, is now ready for college and continues to rebuff her mother’s need to subject her to seeing ceremonies in advance of formally arranging her marriage....
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Can I Get Tested for COVID19?
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