India Currents

{{Short description|Indian-American magazine}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine |title=| logo = | logo_size =  | image_file =  | image_size =  | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = Meera Kymal | editor_title = Editor | previous_editor = Srishti Prabha, Preeti Hay, Nirupama Vaidyanathan, Jaya Padmanabhan, Geetika Pathania Jain, Vidya Pradhan, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Arvind Kumar, Ashok Jethanandani, Vandana Kumar | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = | frequency = Monthly | format = | circulation = | publisher = Vandana Kumar | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = 32,000 | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = | founded = {{Start date and age|1987}} | firstdate = {{Start date and age|1987|4}} | finaldate = | finalnumber = | company = | country = United States | based = San Jose, California | language = English | website =  | issn = 0896-095X | oclc = }}

'''''India Currents''''' is, according to the ''San Jose Mercury News'', "the oldest and largest Indian-American magazine on the West Coast" of the United States.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|last1=Fernandez|first1=Lisa|title=San Jose magazine tackles tough issues facing Indian-American community|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17787710|accessdate=27 March 2015|work=San Jose Mercury News|issue=April 6, 2011|ref=sjmn-2011}}</ref>

==Overview== Fully digital today, it earlier offered Northern California, Southern California, and Washington, D.C. editions, as well as online content. In 2011 it employed 6 full-time employees and distributed 32,000 free copies.<ref name=":0"/> In 2015, it reached 172,000 readers every month.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url = https://www.indiacurrents.com/about/|title=About India Currents|accessdate =March 28, 2015|work= India Currents}}</ref>

It was launched in the San Francisco Bay Area in April 1987 by editor Arvind Kumar and publisher Ashok Jethanandani, with Vandana Kumar, who was editor in 2003.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://newamericamedia.org/2011/04/india-currents-celebrates-25-years.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110418003446/http://newamericamedia.org/2011/04/india-currents-celebrates-25-years.php|url-status=usurped|archive-date=April 18, 2011|title = India Currents Celebrates 25 Years|last=Roy-Chowdhury|first=Sandip|date=April 2012|journal = New American Media|access-date = May 15, 2015}}</ref>

''India Currents'' and its writers have received a variety of awards, including six awards at the 2014 Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards.<ref name=":1"/><ref>{{Cite web|title=San Francisco Peninsula Press Club: 37th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards|url=http://sfppc.blogspot.com/2014/05/37th-annual-greater-bay-area-journalism.html|work=San Francisco Peninsula Press Club|date=May 31, 2014|accessdate=May 15, 2015}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{Official website|https://indiacurrents.com/}}

Category:Asian-American magazines Category:Cultural magazines published in the United States Category:Magazines established in 1987 Category:Magazines published in the San Francisco Bay Area Category:Mass media in San Jose, California Category:Monthly magazines published in the United States Category:Indian diaspora mass media Category:Indian-American culture in California