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Ranjani Rao is a scientist by training, writer by avocation, originally from Mumbai, and a former resident of USA, who now lives in Singapore with her family. Ranjani Rao is the author of Rewriting My Happily Ever After — A memoir of divorce and discovery and The Coherent Writer newsletter. Column: Desi Roots, Global Wings – a monthly column focused on the Indian immigrant experience
Desi Roots, Global Wings – a monthly column focused on the Indian immigrant experience On Mother’s Day, as on all others, I was thinking of my mother and grandmother. Even though they are no more, they are very much present in my everyday life. This is partly thanks to the gold jewelry—a chain, a pair of small earrings, and bangles—that they bequeathed to me. These items matter to me not because of their (modest) monetary value but because of what they signify. In Marathi, stree=woman, dhan=wealth). The term means “woman’s capital” and, traditionally, it was endowed upon the ...
Desi Roots, Global Wings – a monthly column focused on the Indian immigrant experience. Learning to unwind in nature – A life-saving skill that can help us survive not just the pandemic, but the ups and downs of daily life. In the early months of the pandemic, I consoled myself by saying that all the drastic changes demanded by the Covid-19 virus were short-term measures. The inconvenience was temporary; a test of resilience that was best borne with a smile. A year later, the once-surreal situation that has now become an unpleasant but accepted reality for the foreseeable future, makes me...
Desi Roots, Global Wings – a monthly column focused on the Indian immigrant experience. As I mark an important milestone in my scientific career, I notice that not much has changed since the time I joined the workforce making my goal of staying in the workforce sound like an achievement. Recently I completed twenty-five years as a scientist. Not surprisingly, I remembered my first day at work, eager to reap the rewards of my hard earned education that had begun in India and culminated in the US with a Ph.D. As a diligent student growing up in urban India in a family that valued education, I...
When your patience is rudely tested in public, do you chafe in silence or take a stand? What does it take to preserve a civic-minded society? Nandini has a point to make!