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Meera Kymal
Managing Editor, India Currents
Meera Kymal is Founder/Producer at DesiCollective and the Managing Editor at India Currents. She covers issues that impact minority communities in the South Asian diaspora through the lens of social justice, politics, and the arts.
Meera is 2021 & 2022 grantee from the USC Center for Health Journalism, reporting on domestic violence in the South Asian community. The ‘Desi Dost’ project recently won two first place California Journalism Awards for In-Depth Reporting from the California News Publishers Association.
At India Currents she has won grant funding from the Cal. State Library, the Facebook Journalism Project, United Way Bay Area, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Network for Good, and Ethnic Media Services. She has received Journalistic Excellence awards from the San Francisco Press Club and from CNPA.
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On International Women’s Day, here is the story of a woman searching for a safe space to live her life.
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In the shadow of the American dream, a darker tale emerges - one of transnational abandonment and the plight of immigrant women facing domestic abuse.
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As women and mothers, we couldn’t understand how life could target vulnerable women like Leena so unfairly. As journalists, we wanted to find out why.
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Nisha thought that violence in a marriage was simply what every Indian wife ‘had to accept’ in her husband’s home. She was only 24.
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When Anjali Kour’s husband abandoned her in India in 2017 after a 15-year abusive marriage, she lost everything – her home, her finances, and her child.
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Leena met her firstborn daughter 22 years after she was kidnapped as a baby. But it was not the reunion she had hoped for.
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Bay Area artist Tanya describes survival inside a turbulent marriage where her husband and the inlaws subjected her to abuse.
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Children are not just witnesses but are also victims of domestic violence.
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This reporting team will seek to make more transnational abandonment survivors aware of their options and navigate existing law.
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Transnational abandonment spiked significantly during the pandemic. Two journalists reflect on their effort to share survivor's stories and advocate on their behalf.