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Named Right, Berkeley!

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Happy Berkeley - with dirt in her mouth and a stick at her feet! Berkeley walked into our lives 9 years ago, during Thanksgiving. She was a Golden but with an Irish Cream mother, which made her white gold, speckled with yellow gold. When we took her out in the morning sun, she looked extraordinary and almost angelic. She attracted comments and looks everywhere she went. Even non-dog lovers commented that she had a beautiful face. Her beauty was definitely not hair-deep, she was a gentle dog who loved to eat, play and receive non-stop petting from every visitor that came home. She was so sweet that many people who feared dogs lost their fear and could not stay away from petting her. Most of all, she was super intelligent, quite shrewd and knew exactly how to behave based on the situation. Hence, living up to her name, Berkeley! Our older son Satya, was at UCal, Berkeley, when she first arrived home and what started as a joke to name her Berkeley, stuck with her. The breeder had said she...
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‘Child That Belongs Over There’: Coping With Cultural Biases Against Working Women

  “Our relatives are visiting us next week and we cannot keep it a secret anymore,” my husband said to me. Our big secret: I had started working outside the home four months ago. I had taken a job at a preschool, but we had kept it to ourselves. Sound strange? Here is why we kept it quiet: My family is from India. I had a toddler at home. As an Indian woman from a conservative family, I knew that raising children and homemaking is what was expected of me. It is simply not OK for your little one to be raised by others while you worked.   A typical conservative Indian woman has no backing from men in any stage of her life when it comes to a job, let alone a career. Fathers — and mothers — encourage their daughters to go to school and finish college, as having college credentials is deemed prestigious. In our language (Telugu), a girl is called “aadapilla,” which literally translates to “child that belongs over there.” That means she does not belong “over here,” in her home —...
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Pandemic vs Infodemic

  Friendly handshakes have become a no-no; conferences, events, games and large gatherings have been canceled; universities are conducting their classes online to keep their students off campuses; tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook and many companies - big and small are asking their employees to work from home. While the pandemic of Covid-19 is plummeting stocks, emptying shelves at grocery stores and forcing the leaders of the world to close their doors to economic boom and travelers, here are a few snippets of what the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling the “infodemic,” created by social media. ·          TikTok raked up 27 million views of the first video posted by WHO, on measures that people can take to protect themselves from coronavirus. ·          Sprinklr counted a record nearly 20 million mentions of coronavirus-related terms on March 11. ·   ...
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