We have these ideals of creating a just and equitable world. Suppose we get consumed by these thoughts and imagine that the only way for us to reach such a
This article hopes to add to Ashutosh Varshney’s convincing comparison (Indian Express, July 6) of current Indian and American scenes and in particular of African Americans and India’s
Unfolding history often repeats a pattern, and we humans loves simple explanations. 9/11 showed that Muslims constituted the world’s central problem. Nineteen years later, the Covid pandemic has
I was born in a rural village in Nepal about 100 km west of the Indian state of West Bengal. As a teenager, I grew up harbouring a very strong
I was sprawled face down on the snowbound sidewalk in downtown Detroit, nursing my bruised elbow. I had just been ejected from a building where I had gone apartment hunting.
Long after our world farewells Covid-19, and may that moment arrive, a sentence uttered quite close to the virus’s birth is likely to be remembered.
Pronounced on January
Are the US, China and India fundamentally different from one another? Not when we realize that in all three countries some get to speak while others can’t be heard.
In a horrified email, a friend refers to a suggestion, in an article she had just read, that Prime Minister Modi’s mention (in the context of lockdown-induced hardships)
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
