15 Minutes: Seema Kak, Executive Director of Kiran Inc.
Photo by Jade Wilson.
Executive Director of Kiran, Seema Kak (center), and staff. (left to right sitting) Teena Palathanam, Seema Kak, Aparna Balakrishnan. (left to right standing) Salona Lutchminarain and Aelya Salman.
Can you tell me about the work that Kiran does?
Our mission is to end the cycle of abuse and empower South Asian victims of domestic violence for the entire state of North Carolina by providing culturally specific services. We began in 1998; it was just a volunteer organization. A couple of women got together and wanted to highlight the domestic violence that had started to pick up, or at least become noticeable, in the South Asian communities. It grew from there. In 2008, the agency became federally funded for the first time as a nonprofit organization. So, other than just providing domestic violence services, we try to help these victims escape the cycle of abuse and rebuild their lives. Weâre not limi
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No. 2 LSU gymnastics falls to No. 6 Alabama LSU Gymnastics (Source: Josh Auzenne/WAFB-TV) By WAFB Staff | February 19, 2021 at 9:37 PM CST - Updated February 21 at 5:03 PM
The following information is from LSU Athletics:
The second-ranked LSU Gymnastics team scored a 197.325 in the loss to No. 6 Alabama on Friday night inside Coleman Coliseum.
Freshman Haleigh Bryant led the squad with a 39.600 in the all-around to match her career high.
“Credit to Alabama for bringing it tonight,” head coach Jay Clark said. “We couldn’t put it all together tonight so now it’s time to get back in the gym and fight. We cannot sulk over what happen tonight and have to work before we go to Kentucky for another tough meet.”
Triangle First: Jphono1 s Hallucinogenic Folk-Rock Revelations
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Potluck founder John Harrison, aka the prolific Jphono1, has a new album of jazzy, gentle folk-rock on the horizon:
Parliament, due out March 1.
It s his third album to be released since COVID-19 remade the worldâhis last album,
You Are Here to Be Around, was released just last Novemberâbut the first, he says, to be entirely conceptualized and recorded during the pandemic.Â
Ahead of the release, Harrison is premiering album opener Fade the Scene with the
INDY, with a video single that mirrors the soothing, slippery psychedelics of the song, as Harrison croons âFind a way to remember to breathe / Take a seat, Lay back / Fade the Scene, gone, Iâm gone against trailing guitar lines and lush, reverberatory electronics.Â
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