Every morning just after her shower, Vanita Nargund slips downstairs to a room that used to be an office but is now what she calls “God’s room.” She lights two oil lamps from her childhood home in southern India, sits cross-legged on an area rug, and focuses her mind on what’s most important to her, things that transcend her days working in accounting near Princeton, New Jersey. Lately, she’s been praying for her 86-year-old father and her three sisters still in India, asking Hindu deities to protect them from COVID. Her words are soft but urgent, and full of her love: “Give them strength and bravery to fight through.”
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