May I vent? On Sunday I went to the India Day celebration in New York. It was my first one since moving here, after years in a smaller city where there wasn’t much commemoration. Riding the subway downtown I was … Continue reading
The annual South Asian Student Alliance (SASA) conference begins next weekend. I think that SM bloggers and quite a few of our readers have made it pretty clear what little respect we have left for SASA, which seems to have … Continue reading
In 1998, Nidha Mubdi, a student at St. John’s University in New York, discovered during a routine checkup that she had leukemia. After much searching through SAMAR, a donor named Himesh Kapadia stepped forward: The bone marrow donation saved her … Continue reading
My mom, who works for a department store in the D.C. suburbs, asked me if I would be willing to write a post on SM about her co-worker Smita. My dad sent me an email: You may want to post … Continue reading
Some time ago we posted about a young woman, Pia Awal, who needed a bone marrow donor to fight her leukemia. A 20-year-old Pakistani woman from London matched and saved her life. Awal and her fiancé, Apratim Dutta, just had their long-delayed wedding. I can’t … Continue reading
From the parents of Rajan Vyas, a 6-year-old boy battling leukemia: You can save the life our our 6 year old little boy, Rajan Vyas, who is suffering from leukemia, and is waiting to receive a potentially curative bone marrow … Continue reading
Pia Awal’s search for a bone marrow transplant donor produced a match last week, and she will undergo the procedure later this month at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Awal, who has leukemia, inspired family and friends to launch … Continue reading
Two weeks ago a friend of mine in Houston forwarded me a link to an ongoing discussion on the website of Dr. Vijay Mehta. Dr. Vijay Mehta is best known for the many appearances he makes at various South Asian … Continue reading