Ritu Jha- New York-based Ehsan Ahmad who was visiting his grandfather’s ancestral village in Gurdaspur, India says he will never forget how his one-week visit turned into a month-long journey due to a sudden shutdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the evening of March 24. India has been on lockdown since March 25 […]
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Great Re-Immersion in India
Vinita Gupta- On a recent trip to India to immerse my mother’s ashes, and then to politically charged Kashmir, I was immersed in the religiosity and politics that I had left behind 46 years ago. On the 27th of February, we landed in Allahabad’s Kumbh Mela, on the banks of the Ganges, a massive […]