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The Tri-Valley Hacks Team (back) and City of Pleasanton staff (front). From Arya, News Team Contributor Rahul Datta is the high school junior who is in charge of Tri-Valley Hacks, “the first 24-hour hackathon in the Tri-Valley area specifically for high school students.” As Datta puts it, “with the help of Foothill High School’s Cyber Security club, Tri-Valley Hacks hopes Read more...
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article by Ishmeet, a News Team Contributor Jimmy Carter once said, “The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on Earth.” Rights are the legal entitlements that citizens obtain to act in a certain way. Rights for both genders aren’t proportionally divided though. According to a gender-equality report, only six countries in the Read more...
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From Kanchan, News Team Contributor Usha Akella tells no lies. The first time I met this poet, producer, and founder of South Asian poetry collective Matwaala was at a Desi poetry reading moderated by India Currents. It was a surreal moment for a South Asian American teenage girl who grew up on a diet of Mahabharata reruns and idolized authors Read more...
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article written by Kanchan Naik, a News Team Contributor When Kalai Bagai first arrived in San Francisco on September 6th, 1915 with her husband Vaishno and three sons, local newspapers flocked to cover the story of the first Indian-American woman to enter the Bay Area. Fleeing British imperialism in her homeland, Bagai was exposed to the very casual racism and persecution she Read more...
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article written by, Kanchan Naik, a news team contributor Residents of the Tri-Valley came together to honor Catherine Kuo after her tragic passing in an automobile accident at Fallon Middle School. Ms. Kuo (48 years old) was a board trustee for the Dublin Unified School District, and was highly involved in DUSD’s volunteer programs. In fact, she unfortunately passed away Read more...