Four years ago I published an article in the iconic American feminist magazine, Ms. Magazine on the symbolic value of the then Senator Kamala Harris as the VP nominee for the Democratic…
Last month, I took a nine-seater flight, the smallest I have flown in my life, from Bhubaneswar to Jeypore. The aim of the trip was to learn about the Panikas, the weavers…
Moving on! Got tired of sitting on the sidelines. A short pause that turned into an eternity of silence — awkward, unkind, and unbearable. And the dilemma … To do or not…
Indian American teen Jai Patel of South Brunswick, New Jersey is among the state’s top 75 high school football players for the upcoming season, according to a list culled by NJ Advance…
We are a group of sari lovers in Southern California. We met again for the first time in one and half years since Covid lockdown. The location was a winery in Temecula,…
A film that set off a storm of controversy in Pakistan is now the country’s official entry to the Oscars this year, thumbing their nose at objections from religious and political groups. The drama…
There was a time when the threat to “send a nation back to the Stone Age” belonged to the private lexicon of war rooms—phrases uttered in anger, then buried under the disciplines…
“Ruszkik haza.”Russians, go home. Four syllables. Seventy years old. The last time they echoed over this river, Soviet tanks were already in the streets. It was October 1956. Hungarian students and factory…
Asha Bhosle, the playback singer who lent her voice to more than 12,000 songs across eight decades and became the most recorded artist in music history, died on Sunday, April 12, 2026,…
According to the UN Environment Program, “Around 3.2 billion people, or 40 percent of the global population, are adversely affected by land degradation.”(UNEP) This destruction and disregard for nature has resulted in…
The email arrived without warning. In March 2026, a veteran journalist who had spent years building an audience on Instagram and Threads woke to find both accounts erased. No specific violation cited.…
Let me tell you where this series began. I grew up Tamil. A boy on the periphery of something I didn’t have words for yet — the rustle of a Kanjivaram as…
“A line drawn in haste on a paper map can permanently scar the geography and soul of a civilization,” writes Tanya Momi in her staggering new work, “Daughter of a Refugee: India’s…
A series like “Bait” — smart, self-aware, and unsettling — does not merely tell a story; it stages a confrontation. It compels us to look at the fractures of our time: the persistence of…
It was three in the morning when Saraswathi Vedam’s phone rang. She had waited more than four decades for this moment, and when it came she wasn’t sure whether to laugh or…
Riz Ahmed stars in a modern, London-set film adaptation of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, “Hamlet,” written by Michael Lesslie and directed by Aneil Karia. The thriller reimagines the Shakespearean tragedy within the…
I grew up Tamil, which means I grew up surrounded by sarees. My Paattis wore them. My Athais, my Periyammas, my Chitthis wore them. My Amma wore them to temple, to weddings,…
On the evening of February 3, 2026, the municipal chambers of Frisco, Texas filled beyond capacity. People had traveled from across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex — not for a local budget dispute…