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ICC West Valley Independence Day Celebration

by Anu July 13, 2022

ICC West Valley Annual Picnic is celebrating 76th Independence Day on Sun, Aug 14th at India Community Center, Milpitas. Join us for the celebration from 5pm onwards. Food: Snacks and Dinner […]

LOCAL

Bay Area Uncles, How You Talk to Young Women Matters

by Ayanna Gandhi March 29, 2022

COMMUNITY, LOCAL, STOP THE HATE

Attacking the Man Who Inspired Martin Luther King

by Pushpita Prasad February 13, 2022April 15, 2022

AWARD WINNING, AWARDS & PRESS, HEALTH & WELLNESS, In-Depth Reporting, LOCAL

Three Cultures, Two Shopping Carts, One Desi Grocery Store

by Srishti Prabha November 23, 2021January 5, 2023

AWARD WINNING, AWARDS & PRESS, CULTURE, FILM, POP CULTURE, YOUNG WRITERS, YOUTH

Disney’s ‘Spin’ Is What Is Wrong With Indian Representation in Media

by Medha Sarkar September 8, 2021July 14, 2023

ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH & WELLNESS, Stories

Neanderthal DNA Present in South Asians is a Risk Factor For COVID-19

by Isha Trivedi July 6, 2021April 15, 2022

Top: Photograph of indentured Indian labourers at Spring Garden Buildings. Jamaica, 1880 (Image from the National Archive); Bottom: Contrabands at headquarters of Gen. Lafayette, 1862. Contrabands was an expression coined by Gen. Benjamin F. Butler to describe escaped slaves (Photo by Mathew B. Brady courtesy Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library/Yale University via Wikimedia Commons)

AWARD WINNING, AWARDS & PRESS, In-Depth Reporting, YOUTH

Juneteenth Isn’t Enough: How Indian-Americans Can Use Their Pasts to Help Another Present

by Ayanna Gandhi and Srishti Prabha June 17, 2021January 5, 2023

Film, 'If I Go, Where Do I Go?' at BAMPFA.

Berkeley’s Film Archive Diversifies History With Films by Amit Dutta

by Srishti Prabha May 24, 2021April 15, 2022

Bindu Desai with colleagues in England (Image provided by Bindu Desai)

A Welcome of Sorts: Stranger In a Strange Land

by Bindu Desai May 14, 2021April 15, 2022

COVID19, HEALTH & WELLNESS

Tips to Keep You and Your Family Safe In India

by Poonam Kirpal May 11, 2021April 15, 2022

India's External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar

From Survival to Revival: Does India Have A Plan?

by Manoj Ladwa May 10, 2021April 15, 2022

Oxygen Cylinders being sent to India (Image from the Office of Gavin Newsom)

California Governor Gavin Newsom Sends Aid to India

by Gavin Newsom April 28, 2021April 15, 2022

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