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The Matrix and Ma Durga: How Navratri, Durga Puja and Dussehra Festivities Turned into Virtual Reality

The reverberating sound of the dhaks (large drums) and the resonance of the conch shells…

Dissecting Political Behavior: What Animates the Progressive and Conservative Indian Americans

The voting behavior of Indian Americans has become a subject of great interest in this…

Born in the U.S.A.: Why I Couldn’t Celebrate When My Parents and Brother Received their Green Cards

When I first saw it, I was sure it wasn’t real. It was too good…

Indian Americans’ Growing Preference for Republican America Coincides with Their Support for Hindu India

Indians who moved to the U.S. in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s were mostly focused…

Living with the Enemy: Indian Women on H-4 Dependent Visa are Defenseless Targets of Domestic Violence

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It is meant to remind ourselves of the gravity…

O Palestine! An Indian American’s Account of the Horrors of Israeli Occupation of the West Bank

This January, 55 students and I from Columbia University’s School of International & Public Affairs…

How I Overcame the Trauma of Domestic Violence Through Spiritual Awakening

Here’s a little bit about my journey of my spiritual awakening and how it has…

Research Shows How Much Islamophobia Dominated Prime Minister Modi’s Reelection Campaign

In January President Donald Trump retweeted an evidently doctored image of United States Congressional House…

Tell Judge Amy Coney Barrett We are Out of the ‘Kitchen’ and We are Not Going Back

In 1995, shortly after I graduated college and started working as a software engineer in…

The Enigma of Arrival: The America I Had Imagined is Not the America I Found

Why did I choose to move to a completely new environment, culture, and society and…

As a Doctor I’d Say Don’t Fear the Coronavirus, Fear the President of the United States

Don’t fear the coronavirus is the advice given by the President of the United States,…

Why Gloria La Riva and I are Running as the Socialist Alternative to Biden-Harris 2020

Perhaps the most astonishing moment in my life occurred in the Bombay – now Mumbai…