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Vignesh Ramachandran

Denver, San Francisco

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Multiplatform Editor at The Washington Post

Journalist | Co-Founder/Editor of Red, White and Brown Media: South Asian American conversations at https://t.co/P05676a82B

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Articles

  • 1 week ago | captimes.com | Vignesh Ramachandran |Dahlia Saba

    On March 25, Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted by plainclothes immigration agents outside of her apartment in Somerville, Mass. Öztürk, a Tufts University Ph.D. student, was targeted for writing an op-ed in the Tufts Daily calling for “the equal dignity and humanity of all people,” public affirmation of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, and for the university to disclose its investments and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel.

  • 2 months ago | indiacurrents.com | Vignesh Ramachandran

    On one of my regular trips to a bookstore a few weeks ago, I picked up a bonsai tree kit. Inside were four tiny seeds and a shallow dish to grow a tiny tree from seeds. After following all the planting steps, I’ve been staring at it each morning in hopes for a glimmer of growth. The internet tells me it could take a year to even grow into seedlings, upward of a decade to turn into a small bonsai tree, and then many more years after that to become a mature bonsai.

  • Feb 2, 2025 | indiacurrents.com | Vignesh Ramachandran

    I just finished reading Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s latest novel, “A Great Country,” which among many things, reminds us how Indian American communities are not immune from challenges that many other minority populations face in the U.S. President Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders over his first 10 days includes actions that will impact many South Asian Americans, including trying to eliminate birthright citizenship, shaking up the H-1B visa program, and ramping up deportations (Indians are...

  • Jan 15, 2025 | indiacurrents.com | Vignesh Ramachandran

    Much of the current discussion around changes to H-1B visas for South Asian communities is still hypothetical, so we will have to actually see what the upcoming Trump administration chooses to do in the weeks and months ahead. But one discussion that has come out of the recent debates about the value of H-1B workers is Vivek Ramaswamy’s sentiments about one aspect of the immigrant experience.

  • Nov 18, 2024 | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Shreya Goyal |Vignesh Ramachandran |Jaden R. Kohn |Kevin P Shah

    BACKGROUND: While the Association of American Medical Colleges encourages medical schools to incorporate quality improvement and patient safety (QI/PS) into their curriculum, medical students continue to have limited QI/PS exposure.

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Vignesh Ramachandran @VigneshR
5 Feb 25

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Vignesh Ramachandran
Vignesh Ramachandran @VigneshR
5 Feb 25

"What we're seeing is unprecedented in that you have these actors who are not really public officials gaining access to the most sensitive data in government." https://t.co/Sw6CvbBsd0

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Vignesh Ramachandran @VigneshR
20 Jan 25

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