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Dr. Nagamani Beligere Dharmapuri (Masala Chat Project)
Nagamani Beligere Dharmapuri, 82, is a pioneering pediatric physician who came to the US on her own in the early 1960s. The interview includes discussion of her fight throughout her life to defy expectations of...
Ms. Shimmi Chandra (At Risk Stories)
Shimmi Chandra, 85, is a retired real estate agent and one of the pioneering members of the Indian American community in the United States. She arrived in 1959 with her husband and they founded Indian...
Mr. Sunder and Ms. Mangala Subramaniam (Broadening Narratives)
Mr. Sunder Subramaniam, 81, and Ms. Mangala Sunder Subramaniam, 72, are a retired couple living with their daughter and her family in Chicago and are active members of the Senior Center in Naperville. Both are originally from Kerala, though Mr. Subramanian moved frequently throughout north ...