My need to counter what I saw as this country’s rightward tilt took the form of non-stop, 24/7 outrage — in the supermarket, the doctors’ lounge, at the dry cleaners, wherever I found a willing listener…
Even with terminal, painful imminent deaths, the medical association waffles, forcing physicians to make their own calls and risk prosecution…
She had become a liability for all groups: those for whom she was too Muslim and for those to whom she was not Muslim enough…
No disease or infection is an “enemy” — for that very reason, we never become soldiers.
When the orders for instant evacuation arrived, my husband and I were stunned…
Thaila Ramanujam is a physician in private practice in California. Raised in a literary family as the daughter of a prominent Tamil author, she developed a passion for Immunology early on and moved to the University of Washington to pursue research. She writes both fiction and non-fiction, and her work have been published/ or won awards in Nimrod, Asian Cha, Glimmer Train, and Readers. Her translations have appeared in International Literary Magazines. She is a columnist for a Tamil literary magazine, Kalachuvadu with international readership and has an MFA from The Writing Seminars at Bennington College, Vermont.