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Radical Spirits: India's First Woman Doctor and Her American Champions

Radical Spirits: India's First Woman Doctor and Her American Champions

Set in 1880s US and British India, Radical Spirits is the story of India's first woman doctor and the Americans who made her success their mission.

2020

Nandini Patwardhan

Nandini Patwardhan

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What Author Isabel Wilkerson Gets Wrong about Caste in India

Just about everything, unfortunately

6 min readOct 27, 2023

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What Author Isabel Wilkerson Gets Wrong about Caste in India

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What Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” Gets Wrong

The danger of telling “a single story”

11 min readFeb 25, 2024

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What Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” Gets Wrong

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The Taoist Online

Vegetarianism

My spiritual practice

4 min readJan 25, 2024

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Vegetarianism

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Crow’s Feet

I Have (Not) Lost My Can-do Spirit

Crow’s Feet prompt #49 “Loss of Freedom”

7 min readJan 20, 2024

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I Have (Not) Lost My Can-do Spirit

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Crow’s Feet

In the Country of Trees

An ode to Mariposa Grove

2 min readJan 17, 2024

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In the Country of Trees

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Crow’s Feet

How Can I Save this Friendship?

An honest dilemma

3 min readJan 12, 2024

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How Can I Save this Friendship?

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in
The Taoist Online

Spirituality for Toddlers

How early is early enough?

5 min readJan 10, 2024

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Spirituality for Toddlers

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Crow’s Feet

I am “Mary”

My son was born on Christmas day

6 min readDec 24, 2023

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I am “Mary”

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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!

I am a Hindu and I celebrate this season

1 min readDec 22, 2023

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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!

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As Sugar in Milk

What the anti-Israel demonstrators are not (part 2 of 4)

4 min readNov 1, 2023

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As Sugar in Milk

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Nandini

Nandini

Book Author

Writer, biographer, publisher, MS in Math, retired software developer. Mother and grandmother. Indian, American, Hindu, UU. More at https://nandiniwriter.com.

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