Our world is shrinking in worrisome ways. Covid underscored our common humanity, and produced heroes everywhere, but didn’t bring the world together. Climate change invites universal concern but little
Wherever we live, all of us are witnesses as well as participants in the ongoing struggle between democracy and autocracy. If we do nothing, that too is a form of
The cool comfort with which Israel kills Palestinians in their own homes, children included, is matched by its ability to crumble Gaza’s tall buildings into dust in a matter
Urbana, Illinois. -- In a phone call from India, someone close to me voices a cruel truth: “Every day we learn of more people known to us dying of Covid.” A
After 35 or so miles, most trains going south from Delhi stop at a station called Palwal. Now part of the state of Haryana, Palwal belonged to undivided Punjab before
Myanmar’s sorrows have hit me hard. I’ve known many people from that once happy land. Tamil relatives of mine used to live there in the 1920s. Even earlier,
This morning I stopped outside a neighborhood unit (in Urbana IL) where a friend used to live, paid a silent tribute, and expressed silent thanks for her ebullient friendship. Some
To note positive happenings is one way, I guess, of coping with a flow of hurtful news. Chinese and Indian troops ending their eye-ball to eye-ball confrontation at
Populism (for popularity) versus solidarity (for values). That may be a useful way to describe the contest the U.S. witnesses today.
When the U.S. Senate voted 57-to-
Important American events were pushed off-stage by videos of the hideous January 6 bid to prevent the U.S. Congress from certifying Biden’s victory. America’s response will
An article by me criticizing recent laws in India that require a magistrate’s prior approval before an inter-faith marriage can take place, or before either party can change
That Indian politics and American politics are similar is being repeatedly sensed by everyone who follows both.
“We’re all victims,” Trump told a huge all-White audience in Georgia
