How to Get Your Doctor to Speak Your Language

How to Get Your Doctor to Speak Your Language

It was a dark day in 2011 when Karen Concannon learned that she had multiple myeloma, a deadly blood cancer. Only about half of the people diagnosed with it are alive 5 years later. And the treatments can be grueling and often leave lasting side effects. A top priority for Concannon was to ask her … Read more

Writer Shobha Deshpande stages 20-hour protest outside jewellery shop after owner refuses to speak in Marathi

Writer Shobha Deshpande stages 20-hour protest outside jewellery shop after owner refuses to speak in Marathi

Marathi writer Shobha Deshpande staged nearly 20-hour protest on Thursday outside a jewellery shop in Mumbai after its owner allegedly refused to speak in Marathi and asks her to leave. Shobha Deshpande had visited the jewellery shop to buy a pair of earrings when she said the shop owner asked her to leave after she … Read more