Deepa David | August 21, 2019
It felt like just yesterday, when I held her as a newborn in my arms and looked into her inquisitive eyes. It felt like just yesterday, that I swaddled her...
Continue ReadingSarah | May 21, 2019
‘Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home."[1] I was taking my Grandma to her new (nursing) home. Just a week before, she had...
Continue ReadingDeepa David | March 22, 2019
Almost every time I have to write for IndiAanya, our family is usually in some major crisis. Either I’m battling chronic pain for three months, or I find my toddler...
Continue ReadingRuth Davidar Paul | September 10, 2018
“The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ…” Romans 8: 16,...
Continue ReadingSusan Narjala | September 3, 2018
Hey missy girl, When you saw that I’d written an open letter to your big brother on his ninth birthday, you were insistent I do the same for you...
Continue ReadingSusan Gordon | June 20, 2018
I still cannot look at his pictures. I see it through the corner of my eye every day and I take it in my hands to dust the frame every...
Continue ReadingFreda Howell McMahon | June 15, 2018
We were sitting in a rickshaw, heading back to our guest house, when he finally said, “May I have your number?…" I had been waiting for him to ask! ...
Continue ReadingMaria Joy | June 12, 2018
My father is the sixth, of the eight children, born into a family of adversity and overwhelming tradition. Over the years, he showed courage enough to change what life and...
Continue ReadingSusan Narjala | June 6, 2018
Fourteen-year-old girls are supposed to be sassy. They’re supposed to roll their eyes at you and slam doors and lose themselves in a world of text messages and teenage drama....
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