PERSPECTIVES

It’s Not ‘We’re Not This’ or ‘We’re Not That.’ It is ‘We ARE this’ and ‘We ARE That’ and ‘We ARE the Other’

When we say, “we are not this” and “we are not that,” we miss the…

A Bond Like No Other: Some Ways I Have Found Useful in Encouraging My Kids to Read

My father is a voracious reader — every book in our home library carefully covered…

Unionization at Google: How Does it Impact Scores of Employees and Contractors of Indian Descent?

On January 4th, the first working day of the year, Silicon Valley was getting ready…

Capitol Crimes: What happened on January 6, Who are Responsible and What is to Be Done

Over two thousand years ago, Plato described five types of political systems — Aristocracy, Timocracy,…

American Democracy Bubble has Burst. We Must Impeach the President Who Caused It

Hello America, the bubble called “American Democracy” has burst. We’re exposed. We do not have…

Six Yards of Love: A Daughter Longs for Her Mother and Finds a Message in Her Sari

In the New Year, when families celebrate the dawn of a post COVID world, I…

Back When a White Man Gave Me the Middle Finger for No Reason at All

There was a minor incident a few years ago in my quiet suburb of Saratoga…

Dear Georgia Desis: The Fate of the Biden Administration Could be in Your Hands

I am not exaggerating when I say that the Georgia runoff elections are among the…

In ‘Girl, Serpent, Thorn’ Melissa Bashardoust Unveils Zoroastrian Mythology for Young Adults

The good thing about teaching at liberal arts colleges in the U.S. is that you…

Eye of the Hurricane: How SewaDiwali Made Me Realize ‘We are Not in the Same Boat’

2020 has been a bit of a whirlwind, hasn’t it? We started the year with…

‘Inkilab Zindabad’: How I Stepped Away From My Comfortable Perch and Joined the Resistance

I have followed politics for a very long time. I am deeply interested in the…

Hindutva’s Dangerous Rewriting of History as a Means of Advancing Modern Political Goals of the BJP

These are excerpts from an essay published in South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal. In January 2019,…