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
It has been exactly a month since the October 29 arrest in Delhi of Faisal Khan, national convener of the Khudai Khidmatgars, an organisation he had revived 10 years ago.
Given America’s standing, Trump’s defeat is being appropriately seen as a global setback to ethnonationalism. Many have experienced a sense of relief.
Ethnonationalism says that a nation belongs
Below is a deeply troubling report published in The Telegraph of Kolkata of Oct 29. In a dispatch sent from Srinagar, correspondent Muzaffar Raina writes:
“The National Investigation Agency (NIA)
A US presidential election, let us tediously remember, is decided not by the country’s voters but by an “electoral college” to which each of the country’s fifty states
Tuesday November 3, which is when the U.S. will choose its next president, lies twenty-nine days into the future as I type these lines. Given (a) the time
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s election-eve death and Trump’s expected rush to fill the vacancy with a right-wing judge is a hot subject I intend to ignore
