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Two Patels, One Joke: How Nimesh Patel Became the Funniest Indian American Voice — and Put Kash Patel in His Crosshairs

On Thursday, September 4, 2026, Netflix released a teaser for “Nimesh Patel: Buy the Dip”…

Gloria Steinem, Feminist Icon: Gandhian Activism was the Philosophical Foundation of Her Life’s Work

Gloria Steinem, the American feminist pioneer whose activism was profoundly shaped by two years spent…

The Man Who Killed Graham Staines May Walk Free: Revisiting Murders Most Foul a Quarter Century Later

In the early hours of January 22, 1999, Graham Staines — an Australian Christian missionary…

Nickle and Dimed in AI Age: How Veena Dubal Figured Out Uber, Lyft, DoorDash Extract Maximum Labor at Minimum Cost

In January 2023, a 55-page paper appeared on SSRN — the Social Science Research Network,…

Neha Bora’s Art of Biopolitics: How the Leader of Student Uprising Became AOC of India

On the twenty-first day of her hunger strike at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, Neha Bora’s…

Inside and Outside Madison Square Garden: How Mohan Bhagwat’s ‘Universal Oneness’ Rally Divided a City and a Diaspora

By the time Mohan Bhagwat took the stage at Madison Square Garden’s Infosys Theater on…

After the Deluge: 65 to 90 Mostly Indian Americans Unaccounted for After Catastrophic Himalayan Floods

Desperate families in America are awaiting word from loved ones among the 65 to 90…

Where’s the Beef?: Prominent Mythologist Deconstructs the Myth That Vegetarianism is Inherent to Hinduism

Devdutt Pattanaik, one of India’s most prominent mythologists and scholars of Hindu philosophy, has spent…

‘Modifications’? Penguin Random House India Drops Sonia Gandhi’s Memoir in a Dispute That Echoes India’s Shrinking Publishing Freedom

The announcement of Sonia Gandhi’s memoir “Belonging: A Journey of Love” had barely had a…

Divided Oneness: Mamdani Opposes Bhagwat’s Madison Square Garden Event — But Says the City May Lack Power to Stop It

On Saturday, August 29, 2026, Mohan Bhagwat — the sarsanghchalak, or supreme leader, of the…

Trump’s New $103,265 H-1B Visa Fee Misunderstands How High-Tech and Specialized Labor Markets Operate

When the Department of Homeland Security introduced a proposed rule to slap a staggering $103,265…

‘An Immigrant, Like My Parents’: How Vivek Ramaswamy Built a Voting Policy Argument on a Family Story That Wasn’t True

For more than three years — from his 2023 presidential campaign through the current Ohio…