India Currents
India Currents is recognized as "the oldest and largest Indian-American magazine on the West Coast" by the San Jose Mercury News. The magazine publishes editions for Northern California, Southern California, and Washington, D.C., and it is also accessible online. As of 2011, it had a team of six full-time staff members and distributed 32,000 free copies. By 2015, its readership had grown to 172,000 each month. Founded in April 1987 in the San Francisco Bay Area by editor Arvind Kumar and publisher Ashok Jethanandani, the magazine has been under the editorial leadership of Vandana Kumar since 2003. India Currents and its contributors have garnered numerous accolades, including six awards at the 2014 Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards.
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indiacurrents.com | Meera Kymal
“I wrote this book as a personal grouch,“ said historian and author William Dalrymple to a rapt audience as he introduced his new book, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World, at The Explorers Club in New York City (May 9). The book is an extraordinary collection of stories that recount India’s often-forgotten yet significant contributions to the ancient world.
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indiacurrents.com | Vivek Wadhwa
There’s no doubt that bloated government bureaucracies need pruning—like an overgrown forest choking off light and life beneath. Universities, too, have often lost their way, nurturing ideological extremes and tolerating open defiance of civil norms. Harvard and other elite institutions have enabled left-wing extremism, including support for Hamas and a disturbing rise in antisemitism. Free speech has suffered, and accountability has waned.
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indiacurrents.com | Umang Sharma
Estimated reading time: 6 minutesRavana, the legendary ruler of Lanka, is one of the most complex figures in Hindu mythology. Best known as the ten-headed demon king from the epic Ramayana, he was a formidable scholar, a devout devotee of Lord Shiva – a master of Vedic wisdom. Despite his deep spirituality and intellect, he is remembered across most of India for his greatest transgression — abducting Sita, the wife of Lord Rama — which ultimately led to his death at the hands of Lord Rama.
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indiacurrents.com | Meera Kymal
Estimated reading time: 8 minutesOn his 1st day in office, President Trump issued an executive order banning birthright citizenship – a directive that will impact children born to undocumented parents, and kids born to parents in the US on temporary visas, such as H-1B workers. Experts predict that 255,000 children each year will be impacted by this new policy, creating an underclass of 2.7 million children by 2045. Many of these children will be rendered stateless.
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indiacurrents.com | Neha Singh
Estimated reading time: 7 minutesWhen a rights group advocating for women’s access to public spaces organised their first walk for peace – a stated agenda beyond simply ‘loitering’ – it caused ripples in an atmosphere vitiated by hypernationalism and warmongering. An organiser shares experiences from Mumbai and Bangalore. “Let’s do a peace walk,” came a suggestion from someone in our Why Loiter group in Mumbai, that works to reclaim public spaces for women.
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