PERSPECTIVES

‘Maa Ka Sum’ Tries Figure Out If You Can Find Your Perfect Match in the Age of Algorithms

Amazon Prime’s new series, “Maa Ka Sum,” made me reflect on something we rarely admit: how…

At the Edge of Memory and Erasure: What Does It Mean to Belong to a Place That is Contested, Rewritten, Forgotten?

I did not arrive at “Indigenized / Tribalized,” my eighth collection of poetry, as a distant…

Through the Immigrant Looking Glass: My Journey From a Small Village Near Srikakulam to ‘Dos Bros Force’

There’s a memory I keep returning to. An arcade near my school – not the…

Mango Season: Beyond the Divisions, a Sense of Belonging and a Shared Past That Binds the Subcontinent

Each summer, the mango reappears across South Asia and into its far-flung diasporas, bringing with…

Partition Was the Wound. Nationalism Became the Tool: The Cost of Memory and the Politics of Keeping It Alive

We Were Taught to Remember, Not to Question In the late 1990s, somewhere between high…

A Robinhood Who Wears White: ‘Matka King’ Paints an Engrossing Portrait of the Indian Gambling Kingpin

“Matka King” is a 2026 Hindi-language period crime drama written by Abhay Koranne and directed…

Trump’s Grammar: How He has Recoded the Rules of Power, How it is Asserted, Contested, and Made Real

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein In…

Yolo, Fomo, Skylab, Now: Anxious Generations and the Lost Art of Living for Tradition

A conversation with an Indian American teacher led to a nostalgic moment many of our…

The Trump of Tamil Nadu: Why Vijay’s Rise Should Terrify Us All — And Why I’m Done Being Polite About It

Back in late September, a few days after the Karur stampede, in which 41 lives…

Behind the Glass Cubicle: Confessions of a Working Woman Who Walked Away, and Other Musings

I remember the moment something felt completely off. I was in one of those soundproof…

Charge and Punishment: The Case of Umar Khalid Inverted the Moral Grammar of Justice

Every democracy faces a moment when it must look at itself without illusion. India’s moment…

The Quiet Extinction: In America, As In India, Press Freedom Dies Without a Shot Being Fired

In February 2026, a regional court in a Southeast Asian democracy ordered a digital news…