by Meera Venugopal | Aug 20, 2018
This article originally appeared on the India Home blog. Nurul Khan and his wife Farida Begum are an older Bengali couple from Queens who lived for 30 years in damp basement apartments in Jamaica, Queens. “It was so damp I got arthritis,” Farida Begum said to visitors...
by Meera Venugopal | Jun 6, 2018
This article originally appeared on the India Home blog. Three mornings a week, Abu Sayeed, 64, wakes up in his home in Cyprus Hills in Brooklyn, NY, worrying about the subway. He wonders if he’ll manage get the right train. How long will he have to wait? As he gets...
by Meera Venugopal | Mar 19, 2018
Salma Abdul* was born and grew up in Bangladesh. Her children left for the US to study, then settled in the country as permanent residents. When her husband died, she found herself alone. Her children, unable to leave their lives in the US, but worried about her aging...
by Meera Venugopal | Dec 6, 2017
This post originally appeared on the India Home blog. It’s India Independence Day, 2017, and at the celebration being held at Queens Borough Hall in Queens, NY, the young announcer invites the next act to come up on stage. Ten women from India Home file in and start...
by Meera Venugopal | Oct 20, 2017
This post originally appeared on the India Home blog. By all accounts, Bharti Parikh, 66, has led an exciting life. Her life has been an adventure that took her from a childhood in the tiny village of Patton in Gujarat, India, to a law degree, and fulfilling years in...
