Recent efforts to make it easier for people with high-tech skills to live and work in the United States are widely seen in terms of benefiting outsiders. But PNS commentator Sarita Sarvate disagrees: imported brains, she says, have played a … Continue reading
The gravest mistake Americans could make right now is to dismiss the need for a national soul-searching over our social mores as a whim of the religious right. Sarita Sarvate is a writer who was born and raised in India. … Continue reading
Pacific News Service Los Angeles Times Many women of the Third World took heart from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s message of personal liberation at the Beijing Women’s Summit. Now they feel confused, even betrayed, by what they see as personal capitulation … Continue reading
Published by Salon Magazine via the New America Media News Syndicate An ancient civilization is calling for a new world order in which the powerful nations of the world will sit down with the less powerful to negotiate arms reduction … Continue reading
Published by Salon Magazine, National Public Radio, and many other newspapers and media outlets. The nation of Buddha, the Veddas and Mahatma Gandhi wants to be a nuclear giant. – – – – – – – – – – … Continue reading
Published in Living in America An anthology of fiction and poetry by South Asian American writers. BY SARITA SARVATE Meena cannot remember a time when she did not dread babies. They creep up on her out of nowhere. As she walks … Continue reading
I can still close my eyes and smell the air on that bright June morning as I came out of the pediatrician’s office in tears, reeling from the news that my son was hyperactive and would need medication when he … Continue reading