PERSPECTIVES

Mirror, Mirror On the Wall: How the Silent Pressure to Be ‘Perfect’ Compels Us to Edit Out Imperfections

We live in a world where imperfections are edited out before they can even exist.…

The Hinge State: Pakistan’s Diplomatic Balancing Act and the Unmaking of the Old Middle East

History rarely announces its turning points in advance. The years 2025 and 2026 will not…

Modern Motherhood: Just Making Sure the Child Still Experiences Tenderness Within a Fractured World

There was a time when motherhood seemed to belong to a different world, at least…

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…