by Vijaya Nagarajan | Sep 16, 2020 | Personal Essays
End of March 1972: Rettakudi and Kunnam Villages, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu, southern India, India, Northern Hemisphere, Earth. Rettakudi was my father’s ancestral village. Kunnam was my mother’s. Most of the summer we were in Rettakudi, but sometimes we would go...
by Aya de Leon | Sep 14, 2020 | Fiction, Personal Essays
Over the weekend, my whole family was locked inside as California blazed as an undeniable result of the climate crisis with unbreathable air. Which is how I was home and watching the online ceremony where my novel SIDE CHICK NATION won a prize. It was selected for...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Sep 10, 2020 | Personal Essays
September 7, 1970. New Delhi, India, Daily, early in the morning, just before sunrise, I hear the pipes surging noisily during the two hour rationed water time. I clamber off the bamboo mat on the floor, dash swiftly to the...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Sep 8, 2020 | Personal Essays
Diary Notes: August 25, 2020 A few early mornings ago in the middle of the night. White, lightning storms raged loudly against the midnight blue sky and clouds raced in and through them, as I had never witnessed before. These lines of thick, bursting, noisy light...
by Aya de Leon | Aug 24, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
When my partner and I decided to become a one-car family in 2016, I began to use Uber when I wasn’t able to walk or bike. Until this happened in 2017: As news of Donald Trump’s travel ban on Muslim-majority countries spread, protests sprang up at airports around...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Aug 6, 2020 | Personal Essays, Uncategorized
Over five thousand years ago, from about 3500 BCE to about 1700 BCE, the Indus Valley Civilization rooted in the Indus river valley spread out over 280,000 square miles, nearly the size of California and Nevada put together. This civilization covered parts of...
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