PERSPECTIVES

Liberating Sampradaya: 75 Years After India’s Independence, a Lost Generation Recovers its Hindu Faith

In 2004 I was dispatched to India to cover the aftermath of the devastating tsunami,…

Remembering My Mataji: Watching ‘Never Have I Ever’ Rekindled Memories of My Loving Mother-in-Law

The celebration of relationships has become part of life in contemporary society. In the secular…

‘I Have Been Giving My Wife False Assurances. I Don’t Know What Else to Say to Her,’ Says Husband of Rape Victim During Gujarat Riots

“Has this really happened? Are you sure? What are we going to do now,” a…

In This Holy Month of Muharram Salman Rushdie Will End Up Looking Like a Martyr

This entire Salman Rushdie attack has really disturbed me. On the one hand, Salman is…

India@75: The Country has Much to Congratulate Itself But for the Unraveling of its Plural National Identity

The Indian state completed 75 years of existence on August 15. A stock-taking reveals much…

Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Taliban’s Complicated Relationship With Jihadists

Ayman Al-Zawahiri was killed in Afghanistan recently. Zawahiri was notorious for his role in Al-Qaeda…

A Measure of Hypocrisy: Salman Rushdie and the Inevitability of a ‘Vijayanagara Ghar Wapasi’

Strangely enough, just two hours before Salman Rushdie was brutally stabbed in upstate New York,…

The Girl and Goddess: A Phenomenon Named Nikita Gill, British-Indian Poet, Playwright and Writer

Bold, brutally frank and bright, are the three adjectives that sum up Nikita Gill, whose…

India@75: Jai Hind and Happy Birthday Big Momma. Continue to Soar My Beloved Country!

My beloved India, you continue to be one of the biggest paradoxes I have ever…

Into the Bowels of Fascism: My Emotionally Draining Yet Essential Visit to Dachau Concentration Camp in Munich

I will not call myself a history buff by any means. It wasn’t one of…

India@75: The Need for a Continual, Critical, Reflective, Comprehensive, and Honest Conversation Around 1947

“Zaam na, zaam na; kisu teyi zaam naa” (“I won’t leave, I won’t; not for…

India@75: Memories of Growing Up in Independent, Impoverished, and Innocent Country of My Childhood

I was born six years after India became an independent nation and three years after…