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…
On the morning of Wednesday, August 5, 2026, the name “Sarah Jukaku” began appearing in search engines across the United States at a pace that neither she nor anyone who knows her…
I’ve been thinking about this. The Gen Z kids that danced, heckled, abused and brought Narendra Modi and his government to their knees, did not just break the parental and societal chains…
U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar, one of the few Indian Americans serving in Congress, was defeated in Tuesday’s Democratic primary by Michigan state Rep. Donavan McKinney, bringing an abrupt end to a congressional…
He was scheduled to speak for thirty minutes. He lasted fourteen. On the evening of July 30, 2026, Vivek Ramaswamy — the 40-year-old biotech entrepreneur, former Trump administration official, and Republican gubernatorial…
June felt like T.S. Eliot’s Wasteland. Mumbai was hot. Extremely humid, paralyzing, and hot. “It’s not just you NRIs,” friends said, “we who have been here all our lives haven’t seen anything…
This morning I found myself reading two stories that, at first glance, had nothing to do with each other. One carried the voices of the families of police personnel injured during the…
On Wednesday, July 29, former President Barack Obama did what he has done almost every summer since taking office in 2009: he posted his seasonal reading list on social media. “It’s that…
When Vinita Prabhakar walked into her introductory English classroom at South Florida State College, assigning contemporary fiction was part of a teaching practice she had followed for years. Today, that classroom assignment…
What we witnessed in India the last month with the NEET protests led by the CJP, is nothing less of a watershed moment in our country’s history. The birthplace of Gandhi’s nonviolent…
On the evening of Sunday, July 20, 2026 — the same day that Delhi Police used batons and tear gas against student protesters marching toward Parliament — a crowd gathered at the…
Whether a movie is good or bad, and I realize this even more as I’ve grown older, is simply a function of whether it gets you emotional or leaves you cold. The…
Narendra Modi built his political empire, in significant part, on social media. He was one of the first major world leaders to understand that the internet was not merely a distribution channel…