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Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney

Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney is a Producer/Founder of DesiCollective Media, where she creates audio, video and written content that impacts the South Asian diaspora. She is also a writer for the magazine India Currents, showcasing the stories of South Asians in the United States while exploring the social and cultural impact of issues like immigration, health, social justice and many more.

Anjana's Latest Articles

Tahera Khalil helps her husband Sabbar Kahlil at dinnertime. Photo by Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local

To Age in Place

By Meera Kymal & Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney

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Stories by Our Fellows

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April 28, 2025

With an Aging Population that Needs Culturally Competent Care, Families Face A Caregiver Crunch. (Originally published by India Currents and palabra)

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Discriminated and Invisible

By Valeria María Torres-Nieves

Pregnant students or with children deal with a lack of university support and discrimination in the oldest and largest public university in Puerto Rico. (Originally published by Todas, the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo and palabra)

Illinois Students Struggle to Find Halal Food

By Tasmiha Khan

Despite a growing Muslim population in the Chicago area, few public schools offer students halal food options. (Originally published by Borderless Magazine)

To Age in Place

By Meera Kymal & Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney

With an Aging Population that Needs Culturally Competent Care, Families Face A Caregiver Crunch. (Originally published by India Currents and palabra)

Recycling in obscurity

By Frank López Ballesteros

Invisible but essential to the global recycling industry, the cardboard collectors of Miami-Dade earn a living by breaking down each piece of cardboard by hand, with no guaranteed income or labor protections. (Originally published by Intempnews, palabra and Diario las Americas)

The women of La Parada

By Andrea Pineda Salgado

Excluded from many labor laws, Brooklyn’s informal domestic workers seek basic rights. (Originally published by Epicenter and palabra)

Neglected and exposed

By Alejandra Martinez & Wendy Selene Pérez

Toxic air lingers in a Texas Latino community, revealing failures in state’s air monitoring system and leaving residents in the dark. (Originally published by The Texas Tribune, Environmental Health News and palabra)