Shriya Pad

Shriya Pad

Junior at High School
How to write about India: A Satire

How to write about India: A Satire

Please note that piece is intended to be a satire. As an Indian-American, I am writing to bring light to how India is portrayed in writing and popular media. Always use India as the virgin body of your spiritual desires. You are a western wanderer yearning to break...

Delaine Eastin: California’s Candidate for Governor

Delaine Eastin: California’s Candidate for Governor

We may be ailing from the political upset of 2016, but it is important to remember that action must be taken at every opportunity to preserve the integrity of an inclusive country. For Californians, the time to decide will come again during the 2018 Gubernatorial...

Modern Genocide: Our complicity in the Rohingya crisis

Modern Genocide: Our complicity in the Rohingya crisis

The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in its ethnic persecution of the Tutsi minority by the Hutu majority. The genocide lies now as a symbol of the failure of humanity to mobilize in time to rescue its citizens. Western nations have...