I’ve said it before and will say it again: China and India now have a global footprint that imperial Europe never had in its heyday. In size, it even
Born in Madhubani in Bihar and professor of global medicine at Harvard, Ashish Jha is one of countless persons of “external” origin playing a role in America’s battle against
On the afternoon of April 10, speeding in an SUV for more than 400 miles, a posse of the Uttar Pradesh police descended on the Delhi home of Siddharth Varadarajan,
In 1934, i.e. a long time ago, Tagore took exception to Gandhi’s characterization of that year’s Bihar earthquake as “a divine chastisement for the great sin” of
This tribute to Dr. Mubashir Hasan should have been written much earlier, but the virus has disrupted many things.
Because of the pathetic state today of relations on the subcontinent,
As a citizen of India currently in the US, with near ones living in both countries, I have my feet in two far-apart places. Millions are similarly stretched. I
Members as well as opponents of the current Indian regime see Hindutva as the regime’s ideology. What is Hindutva?
Though its dictionary meaning is “Hindu-ness”, the term has
After the United States’ Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) reacted to Delhi’s killings and burnings by saying that “the Indian government should provide protection to people regardless of
In February 1943, some months after his Quit India call, prisoner Gandhi went on a 21-day fast in protest against the British empire’s worldwide anti-Quit India propaganda.
Tender flowers of hope versus a ruthless bulldozer. That is how I picture the start of the year 2020 in India.
Among the hope-giving buds I include Prime Minister
On December 23, the Modi-Shah duo suffered a significant setback when the mineral-rich but long-suffering state of Jharkhand voted out its BJP ministry, but the setback a
I will start with a reminder from a friend for 62 years, a Naga who, as another old friend aptly put it, has remained ‘ever-green’.
At a recent reunion,
