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Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney

Reporter · US

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Sep 7, 2026
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Jul 14, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 7, 2026 · Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney

    Intervention Is Prevention: Inside Narika’s Mission To Stop Abuse Before It Starts (opens the original)

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    More than a crisis shelter, Narika combines financial empowerment and emotional wellness to help families heal and rebuild. “Is there anyone you can recommend who can come and make rotis at home?” When Maya (alias), Advocate for Programs at Narika, received this everyday domestic query, she immediately knew it was a signal of an urgent call for help. Advocates like her, trained by Narika — the Bay Area support service for survivors of domestic violence — immediately realize, “this client is ofte

  2. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney

    Teen Advocates Are Changing The Conversation On Mental Health In Desi Families (opens the original)

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    Youth advocates are turning to creative tools like art, podcasting, and peer support as approachable "backdoor entries" to wellness—bypassing traditional stigma so teens can easily step up and help one another. This story was produced for the USC Center for Health Journalism’s Ethnic Media Collaborative. For years, that was the basic rule South Asian children grew up with in the high-pressure world of Silicon Valley. It’s a sensibility rooted in desi immigrant fears that talking about mental hea

  3. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney

    From the Bay Area to Namaslay: Rish and Kanish Reimagine the Masala Movie (opens the original)

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    Rish and Kanish view themselves as classicists in some ways and futurists in other ways. They broke a filmmaking rule by hiring a very young crew, including many South Asian department heads that gave them a shared language on set. Long before they wrote and directed the horror-satire masala movie Namaslay, brothers Rish and Kanish were just two actors in Hollywood, turning up at auditions that stereotyped the South Asian experience in roles the brothers call “lackluster” and “downright insultin

  4. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney

    Beyond Shared Identity: Is An Indian Therapist Always The Right Fit For You? (opens the original)

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    Identity is complicated for South Asians in America. A first-generation immigrant may have very different mental heath needs from someone born and raised in the United States. This story was produced for the USC Center for Health Journalism’s Ethnic Media Collaborative. The right therapist isn’t always someone who looks like you In the early 1990s, Laavanya was the quintessential Indian American success story. The daughter of a physician, she grew up in New Jersey, an academic high achiever who

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