Bio: Ramaa Reddy Raghavan is a freelance journalist who enjoys working in a multimedia landscape that fuses print, audio, video and photography. She is a graduate of Columbia’s Broadcast School of Journalism and can be reached at ramaa.raghavan@gmail.com.
Posted on: 12 Sep 2014
Part of a series on women, food, and places of worship.
Posted on: 31 Aug 2014
Sunday meals at a temple in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
Posted on: 28 Aug 2014
A Sikh gurudwara in Jersey City where hundreds come to worship and share food.
Posted on: 25 Aug 2014
A new series on what’s being served at religious institutions around the NY area.
Posted on: 06 Feb 2013
Sundaram Srinivasan was an important figure in a community that few New Yorkers have heard of, let alone visited.
Posted on: 15 Nov 2012
Since Hurricane Sandy, the group United Sikhs has brought hot food to areas like Hoboken, Newark, Manhattan and Queens.
Posted on: 30 Mar 2012
Each week, devotees of the Indian spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba feed New York City’s homeless and hungry population. Reporter Ramma Reddy Raghavan brings us this story for our Food in 2 Worlds series.
Posted on: 01 Feb 2012
Ramaa Reddy Raghavan brings us an audio slideshow portrait of Indian American Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, who tends to the spiritual life of students at Columbia University.
Posted on: 08 Nov 2011
45 percent of the students at P.S. 24 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn are designated English Language Learners. The school has won the trust of immigrant families by immersing the students in both English and Spanish, but its D.O.E report card was mixed.
Posted on: 05 Jul 2011
It can take five to seven years for a kid with a non-English speaking background to learn proper academic English. Yet New York high schools that serve immigrants are under pressure to graduate their students in four years.