PERSPECTIVES

Much Ado About a Molehill: Is the Condition of Indian Americans As Precarious As the New York Times Article Suggests?

The New York Times opinion article published at the end of the year drew wide…

Still Here: In Increasingly Indifferent Texas, Women Cope and Survive by Building Communities of Care

Some days, Texas feels too big for its own good. The sky stretches wide and…

India’s Strategic Loneliness in the Age of Trump: The World Waits for India to Find Utterance in Nehru’s Vision

The Indian state and its people have had a good run in the Western world…

2025: When Only Words in Verse Healed All My Hurts and Living in the Present Showed What the Past Meant

In 2025, I traded successfor poetry,when neither pay nor prestige addressedthe emptiness in me Only…

The Genius of ‘Dhurandhar’ Lies in Its Depiction of the Matter-of-Factness of Majoritarian State Power

I finally watched “Dhurandhar,” long after its global impact had already been tallied—both in box-office…

A Paean to a Poet: Vinod Kumar Shukla Allowed Me to Accept Parts of Myself That are Not Tended To

On December 23rd at 5pm IST Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla breathed his last at…

The Narcissist Immigrant and the Abused Dependent Spouse — A Plea to Reform the System

“Before the end of a beautiful dream That reversed into a nightmare Let me try and make…

Back to the Future: 2025 was the Year When Gen Z Came of Age and Taught Us How to be Proactive

This December, while flying back from Dallas to Boston on a packed four-hour flight, the…

Fathers and Sons They Are a-Changin: ‘Single Papa’ is a Delightful Cure for Our Woke Versus Anti-Woke Times

Blood may be thicker than water and bureaucracy stickier than both, but love — love…

Aziz Ansari’s ‘Good Fortune’ Asks a Funny Question Befitting Christmas: Does Money Really Solve Life’s Problems?

“Good Fortune” written and directed by Aziz Ansari is a whimsical romantic comedy that blends…

The Grapes of Wrath: A Year That Has Challenged Our Assumptions and Tested Our Resilience

What will the year 2025 say about humanity in the year 2075? Not much I’m…

It Is What It Is: 2025 was Not That Much Different From Years Past — a Smorgasbord of Folly, Fortitude and Tenacity

As humanity commemorates the completion of another of mother earth’s trip around the sun, it…