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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…

Girl Child in the Big, Bad World: What We Sow in Our Children Today Society Will Reap Tomorrow

Growing up in New Delhi, one of the first things I learned about the “world…

Roe v. Wade in Jeopardy: Let’s Vote Like Our Daughters’ Lives Depend On It

Since the passing of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion in the…

The Color of Carnage: Trump’s Racism has Cost Lives of Minorities, Including Indian Americans

The concept of representation, the idea that you can be just like someone because that…

Breaking Barriers with Joy: How Kamala Harris Won the Vice Presidential Debate

Anticipation. Fear. Hope. Excitement. Above all, a looming sense of uncertainty that has sadly grown…