Our RISE column by Aishwarya Vardhana dives deep into exploring the meaning of the world around us, finding narratives in both past and present to lead us towards a vision of a more equal and diverse world.
Aishwarya Vardhana (she/her) is a digital product designer, artist, and writer. She is interested in decoloniality, feminism, knowledge equity, and systems thinking.
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Aishwarya Vardhana on how the Israel-Palestine conflict reflects the urgent need for moral clarity by the United States
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Aishwarya Vardhana on her different incarnations growing up in America as a child of Indian parents and her understanding of ‘we’
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Aishwarya Vardhana on truth as artifact and commodity and the loss of knowledge with the gain of information
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Aishwarya Vardhana on dharma and its place in our social movements and the spiritual deficit of the American left
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Aishwarya Vardhana on worldviews and narratives and the impact of an ever-changing world
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Aishwarya Vardhana on corporate and government surveillance and our right to digital privacy
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Aishwarya Vardhana on her feminist journey, Roe v. Wade and the fight to control women’s bodies