A response to the previous Letter to India Currents. Dear Vandana Kumar, Black Lives Matter, also relates to our own sordid chapter in the history of the Indian diaspora. For those of us who arrived in the fifties, sixties and decades before, have experienced the...
Dear Vandana Kumar, I have been an avid reader of IC for several years. I have enjoyed your magazine and website until recently. Lately, your content has been disappointing, leaving me with a bitter taste. Every week I let it pass but felt like now I had to write to...
Just like everyone else, I remember where I was when the COVID-19 lockdown was announced. It struck as the school year was growing to a close in India. Thanks to it, the school where I worked closed down prematurely, and boy, was I happy about it. Fate laughed in my...
In light of the World Menstrual Health and Hygiene Day observed recently (28th May), I won’t pad how I feel about the stigma and taboo around periods. We all came into this world from the same place – the uterus. A concept that apparently requires...
You might think it’s strange, but I chose having an arranged marriage in the midst of an era with dating apps like Tinder. And I love my husband. Generally people find it hard to reconcile these two things. When I turned 24, my parents decided that it was time...
