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‘Why don’t any of the signs say Kamala?’ my 6-year-old daughter asked me
By Raakhee Mirchandani for Market Watch
“Why don’t any of the signs say Kamala?” Satya, my 6-year-old daughter, asked me. She recently learned how to read, and these days there is no sign nor cereal box left unread.
Names are a connection point for Satya and the Democratic vice presidential hopeful, Sen. Kamala Harris. Besides sharing Indian first names, the duo share the same middle name, Devi, something my kid finds endlessly fascinating.
Calling BS On The Brooklyn Dads Who Want To Be Called Papa
By Raakhee Mirchandani for Elle Magazine
Papa, can you hear me? There's some bullshit brewing in Brooklyn.
"Hipster Dads Now Want to Be Called Papa" a headline blares in The Daily Beast. The article cites "anecdotal evidence" (playground chatter, several quotes from Brooklyn "papas" and some "mamas"), and posits that its comeback (it was last popular in American English in the 1870s) is "perhaps as part of a return to the authentic and artisanal—the old made new again."