by Vijaya Nagarajan | May 12, 2020 | Personal Essays
The coronavirus shut down California nearly two months ago. For these seven or eight weeks, there was suffering, there was reflection, there was a sense that this door that we were forced to go through may wake us up. Arundhati Roy, the brilliant...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Apr 30, 2020 | Personal Essays
April 30, 2020 The Moral Imagination of a Refrigerator By Vijaya Nagarajan It was 1993 and I was living in the beautiful city of Madurai in southern India, filled with the scent of fresh jasmine flowers woven into the hair of Tamil women’s braids. I was there on a...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Apr 15, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Personal Essays, Reviews
The erosion of everyday life as we have never imagined it before. We can see potential death all around us, as we do the most normal things we know how to do. Breathing. Touching. Learning to talk with a 6-foot distance between us, “Two shopping carts long,” the...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Apr 1, 2020 | Personal Essays
Coronavirus Lockdown Sends Migrant Workers On A Long And Risky Trip Home–NPR Over the past week, Indian men and women of all ages, including families and elders, have been migrating out of the urban centers of Delhi, Mumbai, and Chennai. Hundreds of...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Mar 22, 2020 | Personal Essays, Uncategorized
Toilet Paper: Out of Stock, 3/22/20 By Vijaya Nagarajan As most of us have been, I, too, was at a store a few days ago getting my essentials for a three week “shelter at home” six county-wide directive in the SF Bay Area, the first in the United States....
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