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Vacuous Applause: Modi’s Foreign Policy Increasingly Mistakes Visibility for Influence

Foreign policy is the management of loneliness. Every nation ultimately stands alone. Alliances shift. Governments…

Modi’s Obsession with Headline Management Won’t Buy Him the Immortality that He Craves

The shameless celebration on June 10 projecting Narendra Modi as the ‘longest serving elected uninterrupted…

Here’s to Raising a Toast of Provençal Rosé to My Mother in the Heart of the Artichoke

My thoughts drifted to poetry after a luxurious stroll through the farmers’ market in Walnut…

Deconstructing Rahul Gandhi: A Moral Critic of Status Quo Who Has Uncomfortable Relationship With Power

The debate between Ramachandra Guha and Shashi Tharoor over Rahul Gandhi’s fitness for the prime…

Festival Beyond Celluloid: Cannes has a Way of Compressing the World Into a Few Square Miles

Every morning, filmmakers, producers, dreamers, and veterans walk the same streets. They queue for screenings,…

Marjane Satrapi: ‘Guns May Shoot, and Knives May Carve, But We Won’t Wear Your Silly Scarves’

“I had lost some of my relatives in a revolution… I had survived a war……

Perils of Hyperscale Data Centers: Why are American Tech Billionaires Zeroing in On Visakhapatnam?

The impulsive and pushy rush in where the more cautious and considerate think twice before…

A Mango by Any Other Name Would Taste as Sweet: How India Came to Name the King of Fruits

There is a mango in Costco right now called Tommy Atkins. Tommy Atkins. It sounds like…

The American Empire Attempts to Narrate its Own Fragmentation: A Post-Mortem of Western Strategic Solipsism

The commentary surrounding the global standoff over Iran’s nuclear program—exemplified by the standard, high-velocity op-ed…

In Saint-Tropez, a Coastal Town on the French Riviera, ‘I Have Just Discovered Happiness,’ to Quote Painter Paul Signac

We boarded a Riviera Lines ferry from Golfe-Juan to Saint-Tropez, France, via Île Sainte-Marguerite and…

‘The Lunchbox’: The Transformation of Beloved Film Into a Musical Play is Nothing Short of Magical

“We forget things if we have no one to tell them to.” This poignant line…

Movie Magic: Reporting From the Red Carpet and Front-Row Seat at the Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival remains the world’s most prestigious cinema event because it serves as…