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Limits to Growth: Liberal Biden and ‘Authoritarian’ Modi Summit is Unlikely to Yield Much

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit the United States on a State…

Love and Anti-Blackness: An Indian American Mother Reflects On Raising Black Children in America

My father arrived in the U.S. in 1971, to the same western North Carolina mountains…

‘Political Entrepreneur’ Rahul Gandhi Does Not See Narendra Modi as an Invincible Force

Rahul Gandhi did not wear a Burberry T-shirt when he came to an event in…

The Profound Influence America Had On the Life and Ideology of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar

Last month on my visit to Mumbai, I experienced the celebration of the birth anniversary…

‘Mughal-e-Azam, the Musical’: A Deja Vu Moment of Melodious Music and Soulful Murmurings for the Indian Diaspora

“Mughal-e-Azam” is a choreographed Broadway-style Indian musical that pays an extravagant homage to the 1960 Bollywood film (directed…

Five Days of Terror in Imphal: How State-Sponsored Pogroms Made Us Refugees in Our Country

My family lived in a locality called PaiteVeng, a suburb in Imphal, Manipur, in India.…

Debut Hindi Novel ‘Madhopur Ka Ghar’ Revels in the Quirks of Fate and Ironies of Indian Village Life

“Madhopur Ka Ghar” by Tripurari Sharan is an intriguingly personal novel, part historical, part mimetic,…

Abraham Verghese’s ‘The Covenant of Water’ is An Epic Tale of Conflict and Unimaginable Grief

Not ambitious like “The God of Small Things” but sincerely vested in Godliness. Abraham Verghese…

‘Agastya, The Path’: A Book of Profound Wisdom About Human Possibilities and Potential

Reading the preface for “Agastya the Path,” I already felt appreciative of what was in…

Meet Urwa Zubair, the Pakistani American Filmmaker Bridging Cultural Gaps and Sharing Diverse Stories

In the vast landscape of South Asian artists making their mark in the United States,…

All Fall Flat: Why California’s Caste Discrimination Bill is Itself Discriminatory

In the past several months the drumbeat behind the effort to make “caste” a separate,…

Monica Ali’s New Novel ‘Love Marriage’ Exposes Closely Guarded Secrets in Brilliant Prose

After reading “The Golden House” by Salman Rushdie and dwelling on nostalgic and scandalous stories…