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INDIA CURRENTS Celebrating 29 Years of Excellence june 2015 • vol. 29, no .3 • www. indiacurrents.com A Stroke of ... Luck? by Harshada Rajani Seeking Kabir in Malwa by Jayaram Kalpathy Picking Waste by Anita Felicelli a Shared History and june 2015 • vol. 29, no .3 • www. indiacurrents.com by Anirvan Chatterjee African Americans and Indian Americans have been standing up for each other for over a century. Did you know? Desi a Shared History INDIA CURRENTS Black Desi Black
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INDIA CURRENTSCelebrating 29 Years of Excellence
june 2015 • vol. 29 , no .3 • www. indiacurrents.com
A Stroke of ... Luck?by Harshada Rajani
Seeking Kabir in Malwa by Jayaram Kalpathy
Picking Wasteby Anita Felicelli
a Shared History
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june 2015 • vol. 29 , no .3 • www. indiacurrents.com
by Anirvan Chatterjee
African Americans and Indian Americans have been standing up for each other for over a century. Did you know?
Desia Shared History
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Summer 2015 Arangetrams
Presents
Disciples of
Sundara Swaminathan
Kala Vandana celebratesth 25 Anniversary
Aditi
Shradda
ShreyaNithya Priyanka
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NOWHIRING!
May 1. 2015
Secrets R UsA federal circuit court has finally ruled
NSA’s activities illegal, stating that Section 215 of the Patriot Act “cannot bear the weight the government asks us to assign to it, and that it does not authorize the tele-phone metadata program.” (“NSA Collec-tion of Bulk Call Data Is Ruled Illegal.” New York Times, May 7, 2015.)
We hope that the secret collection of Americans’ phone records is on its way out.
Tamso Ma Jyotir Gamaya. Loosely trans-lated, this verse, attributed to the Brhada-ranyaka Upanishad, invokes a movement towards the light of knowledge.
Let the light of public accountability shine on the NSA’s deep secrets. For this, we can thank, in no small measure, Ed Snowden, currently in exile.
Depending on your political persuasion, Snowden is either a traitor for jeopardising national security, or a hero for shining light on NSA’s shameful secret.
Apparently, the National Security Agen-cy (NSA) had access to most of our secrets.
We know about this secret surveillance, because Ed Snowden told us.
Now Ed Snowden is in trouble for tell-ing us NSA’s secrets.
Perhaps it is the NSA that should be in trouble.
Let’s demand transparency and open doors, so the sun can come streaming in and dispel all that is secretive and wants to remain hidden.
Let’s demand that our public institutions stop trampling on our civil rights. Let’s ask for the police force to have body cams that shed light on what “really” happened.
Let’s tell Congress to sunset the Patriot Act.
Which means telling the NSA to put Sec-tion 215 where the sun don’t shine.
Geetika Pathania Jain, Ph.D. is guest Manag-ing Editor of India Currrents magazine. She has been keeping her doctorate a secret so people wouldn’t expect her to say clever things.
Cover Photo Credit: Desis Rising Up and Mov-ing (DRUM)
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