The Daily Ritual Of Drinking Chai Connects A Sacramento Family To India
When Sumiti Mehta arrived in the US in 2006, she came with plenty of experience as a working professional but no idea how to cook, maintain a household, or take care of her one-year-old son. Years later she and her husband are raising two boys in Sacramento, and teaching them about the important things in life while introducing them to Indian culture.
Read full storyMission Raniganj – The Great Bharat Rescue Premieres on Netflix
Mission Raniganj – The Great Bharat Rescue, starring Akshay Kumar and Parineeti Chopra premiered on Netflix on December 1, 2023. The film chronicles a daring rescue mission to save the lives of more than 60 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine in Raniganj, West Bengal. Akshay Kumar plays late mining engineer Jaswant Singh Gill, who successfully led the rescue mission.
Read full storyHow An Assault Opened My Eyes To The Reality Of San Francisco
When I first moved to the Bay Area in 2022, I was adamant about living in the city. I have always been a city girl – I grew up in Mumbai, spent my teens in Delhi, and lived in downtown Chicago before moving to the Bay. So, a big, bustling city was the natural choice for me.
Read full storyPhotos of the Week: Scenes At ICC’s Gandhi Camp
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Read full storyCrafting A Story With Abraham Verghese
Fourteen years after Cutting from Stone, Abraham Verghese published The Covenant of Water. He told a rapt, standing-room-only audience at this year’s Salla festival in Palo Alto, that he didn’t intend to take ten years to write the book. What he took on instead was an ambitious story that played out over several generations.
Read full storySay Goodbye To Mumbai’s Iconic Kaali Peeli Taxis
Rajnikanth, Mammootty, Aamir Khan — all owned a Premier Padmini at some point during the heyday of the four-seater saloon in India. But the Premier Padmini is best remembered for its role as the iconic Kaali-Peeli taxi of Bombay.
Read full storyRoman Stories By Jhumpa Lahiri
In Roman Stories , an anthology of nine short stories, Jhumpa Lahiri once again chooses to give voice to her narrative in her adopted language, Italian. Beneath the veneer of tranquility are achingly haunting tales of love (or the loss of love), longing, and mourning, based in Rome, her adopted city. Translated into English by her and Knopf editor Todd Portnowitz, Lahiri once again evokes a feeling of beauty in contradiction within her seminal literary framework of departure, displacement, immigration, helplessness, solitude, and hope.
Read full storyBhagwan Bharose: When Reason Challenges Faith
Faith keeps most of humankind alive and shapes our behavior and actions. So when any of these deep rooted beliefs – social or religious– is challenged by the power of science and reason , there is turmoil. Based on this premise, Shiladitya Bora’s Ab Toh Sab Bhagwan Bharose , also explores how the spread of misinformation and false knowledge sows the seeds of discord and hatred in innocent minds.
Read full storyIndia Currents Wins San Francisco Press Awards!
The San Francisco Press Club Board announced its 2023 winners list honoring Bay Area journalists. Several India Currents writers were named in the announcement. The award-winning entries will be announced at an Awards Gala on December 13 hosted at the Francisco Elks Lodge #3. The Press Club received a record-breaking 550 entries this year and selected 291 winners.
Read full storySchool Attendance During the Winter Months Is Important
Every year, absences increase in the weeks before and after winter break. Winter weather, holiday plans, and sickness are often barriers to keeping children in school. As communities enter the holiday season, reinforcing the importance of school attendance becomes a top priority.
Read full storyMeet Urmila Rosario, The Team Manager of the World Cup Winning Australian Cricket Team
Earlier this month, Australia beat India in the men’s cricket world cup final to clinch their sixth World Cup win. While the players put on a stellar performance, the team management and support staff played a vital role in supplementing the team’s on-field performance. Team manager Urmila Rosario, who traces her roots to Kinnigoli near Mangalore in Karnataka, played a key role in managing the Aussie champs.
Read full storyThree Indian Restaurants in the United States Receive Michelin Stars
The Michelin Guide awarded a Michelin star to three kitchens led by Indian-American chefs in New York, Washington D.C. and Chicago. The three chefs are Vijaya Kumar from New York’s Semma, a restaurant specializing in Tamil cuisine; Chetan Shetty of D.C. Indian fusion restaurant Rania; and Sujan Sarkar of Chicago’s modern Indian restaurant Indienne.
Read full storyVir Das Wins International Emmy Award For Stand-Up Special ‘Landing’
Indian comedian Vir Das won the International Emmy award in the comedy category for his Netflix standup special Landing . He shared the award with the third season of British comedy Derry Girls. Das is the first Indian to win an International Emmy in this category.
Read full storySheetal Devi Becomes World’s Top Ranked Para Archer
16-year-old Indian para athlete Sheetal Devi climbed two spots to become the world’s top ranked para archer in the women’s compound open category, after winning two gold medals at the Para Asian Games held in China in October.
Read full storyHow To Overcome Anxiety
Divya, a 30-year-old first-generation immigrant from India came to the US in 2015 on a student visa. She studied software engineering and now works with a multinational company in San Jose on an H1-B visa. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she started working remotely from home and has continued to work from home since then. Divya is unmarried.
Read full storyEmpowering Pediatric Cancer Patients With Art
Thirty pediatric cancer patients and their siblings gathered last month to work on art and design projects, set up by professional artists and animators, and to learn under the tutelage of artists and volunteers at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, California. This was a destination workshop organized on October 29 by Kids & Art Foundation , a Bay Area nonprofit founded by Purvi Shah in 2008. Shah lost her 9-year-old son, Amaey, to leukemia 12 years ago. She and team routinely organize events to celebrate the healing power of art in the face of pediatric cancer. Recently, the foundation held a fun, community event called “Art Heals Day” at Redwood City’s Red Morton Park that drew around 250-300 people.
Read full storyFinding Inner Peace in the Midst of a Burning World
In a world that often seems to be engulfed in chaos and turmoil, the quest for inner peace becomes an essential endeavor. The conflicts, crises, and uncertainties – political, environmental, and personal – that surround us can easily overwhelm us. In such turbulent times, finding peace is a necessity.
Read full storyMore Than 2000 Celebrated Diwali In The City Of Rancho Cordova Near Sacramento
On November 5, more than 2000 Indian Americans attended Diwali celebrations hosted by the Suvidha international Foundation (SIF) and the Overseas Volunteers for a Better India (OVBI). City of Rancho Cordova Councilmembers Siri Pulipati and Garrett Gatewood also joined in the celebrations and interacted with the Indian community.
Read full story“Deepfakes” Pose A Deep Threat To The Coming Elections
This past October, an audio clip appeared on social media in which the U.K. Opposition leader, Keir Starmer, was heard swearing at his staffers. It went viral on X, formerly known as Twitter, with 1.5 million hits.
Read full story“Curry Muncher” – Bullying In Schools Reflects the Racial And Ethnic Lines That Divide Us
“Curry muncher” – that’s what an opponent called my 17-year-old son in the heat of a close soccer game. The other team was losing and frustrated. This offhand epithet only mildly punctured his sheltered life during a rough game peppered with many scuffles and even a red card. Growing up in the Bay Area with a myriad of friends from different ethnicities, my son found the insult funny and had a genuine laugh about it. This sort of name-calling does not happen often in his world.
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