PERSPECTIVES

Tropical Temples and Tourist Traps: Unfiltered Reflections on Why Indonesia Stole My Heart

In “short,” Indonesia can be described as the land of islands, islets, shoals, sandbars, and…

The Confederacy Rises Again: A Clarion Call to Indian Americans to Join the Fight Against Gutting of Voting Rights Act

This week I watched a powerful campaign video from Shuchita Patel, an Indian American woman…

Kalpavriksha: While My Mother, the Avid Gardener, Has Left This Abode, Her Shade Still Protects Me

This morning, a conversation with my yoga teacher—a mosaic of Mumbai’s sweltering heat, Nashik’s April…

How Vivek Ramaswamy Steers His Hindu-American-Tamil-Brahmin-Heritage Through the Cultural Landscape

Vivek Ramaswamy has passed through one more round of success in his bid to become…

‘Demystifying Hinduism’: Hindu Students Host a Landmark Conference at Rutgers University

By any measure, it was just an ordinary Thursday on the Rutgers University campus in…

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Victory is More Than a Political Story. It is a Reaffirmation of the American Promise

There are moments in American politics that go far beyond party lines, election maps, and…

The Morning After in Tamil Nadu: I Was Wrong About How Big the Wave Was. I’m Not Wrong About What It Means

Twelve days ago, I published The Trump of Tamil Nadu. In it, I argued that…

The Meteoric Growth of Digital India: Why for Many of Its Poorest Citizens It Remains an Architecture of Distrust

A republic reveals itself not in its speeches but in its queues. There, in the…

Tamil Nadu in Transition: The End of Half a Century of Duopoly and the Rise of a New Political Force

This month, a historic election has marked the end of a decades-old duopoly and the…

A Touch of India at the Met Gala: Karan Johar’s Raja Ravi Varma Cape was a Cinematic Tribute to Indian Heritage

When we think of the Met Gala, the dresses that flash across the mind’s eye…

‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’  is Grieving a World the South Asian Diaspora was Never Allowed to Fully Enter

I went to see the sequel with my third grader and my sixth grader, which…

My Singlehood was My Mother’s Greatest Sorrow. Understanding This Type of Love Has Been My Life Project

Ya Devi Sarva Bhuteshu, Matru Roopena SamsthithaNamastasyai, Namastasyai, Namastasyai Namoh Namah. This is the first…