19 entries

Articles by Jaya Padmanabhan

Wind Beneath Our Wings

A Mother’s Day tribute

Do You Work?

Soon after I had my twins, I actively sought the order and system of a day job, something that could mitigate the demands of relentless motherhood. Every morning it seemed to me like I was leaving a battlefront, at home, to enter a ceasefire zone, at work. But, as ...

Conscience Calls

One of my abiding worries, as a parent, is whether my children will exercise self-restraint when using megaphonic social sites; whether they will heed the calls of conscience; whether they will be able to empathize with the marginalized, and perhaps be the voice of sanity in the midst of ...

The Year of the People

On October 17, 2011, at a Palo Alto residence, a few executives, industrialists and entrepreneurs-turned-volunteers met with Prashanth Bhushan, the lawyer/activist member of Team Anna. Bhushan, a slight figure with an air of intensity, sat in the middle of the room and was quiet for the first half hour ...

Mustard Seeds

Third place winner of the Katha 2011 fiction contest.

The American Dream?

Four of every 1,000 homes in California face foreclosure. Despite its status as a "model minority," the India American community has its share of victims in this housing crisis.

Banning Books

Books have been banned for a variety of reasons: politics, religion, ideology, and even prurience. Does it ever work?

The State of The World

Where is the leader who will step and deliver the right message for these troubled times?

Khan Academy

Driven by a passion for education, Salman Khan tackles inequalities in the education system for free.

A Heavy Load

Diesel regulations and their effect on the South Asian trucking industry
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