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Two Journeys, Two Wars, One Human Question: The Odyssey and the Mahabharata

The two works come to us through vastly different compositional traditions, across comparable spans of…

Ro-ughed Up: How Armed Israeli Settlers Blockaded Congressman Ro Khanna and What He Plans to Do About It

On the afternoon of Wednesday, July 8, 2026, Congressman Ro Khanna was standing near the…

Nirav Shah, Son of Gujarati Immigrants, Could Be Democrats’ Best Bet to Flip Susan Collins’ Senate Seat

On July 6, 2026, the Maine Democratic Party’s carefully laid Senate strategy fell apart in…

The Sound of Silence: Soma Mukhopadhyay, a Mother Who Figured Out What Nonverbal Autistic Children Can Actually Tell Us

The story of the Rapid Prompting Method begins not in a university laboratory or a…

Usha Vance Calmly Guides Trump Back Toward Book Reading After Each Extended Digression On Her Children’s Podcast

The premise was simple, wholesome, and distinctly American. Usha Vance — the Yale Law-educated second…

Socialists Among Us: Indian and South Asian Americans Are Shaping the Most Consequential Leftward Shift in U.S. Politics

In the summer of 2025, when Zohran Mamdani — the Ugandan-born, Indian-origin democratic socialist —…

The Washington Post’s Bombshell Investigation Into a Hindu Guru’s Alleged Grip on Tulsi Gabbard

Two days after The Washington Post informed Tulsi Gabbard’s office that it was proceeding with…

How a White Couple Chose to Keep the South Asian Baby Born From an IVF Clinic’s Catastrophic Error

On December 11, 2025, Tiffany Score gave birth to a healthy baby girl at a…

‘Shame on You’: Stanford Graduates Walk Out on Sundar Pichai Over Google’s Contract With Israel

The Google and Alphabet CEO returned to his alma mater for only his second-ever commencement…

India at the Top — and the Giant Who Was Left Out: South Asians on Forbes’ Most Successful Immigrants List

When Forbes published its inaugural “Forbes 250: America’s Most Successful Immigrants” list on June 10,…

The Tortoise Factor: Nithya Raman Overtakes Spencer Pratt in LA Mayoral Primary — and What Comes Next Against Karen Bass

On election night, June 2, 2026, the numbers looked grim for Nithya Raman. With about…

The Suspension of Indian American Professor Savneet Talwar and the Silencing of Palestine in Classrooms

In April 2026, Professor Savneet Talwar — a tenured faculty member, program chair, published scholar,…