US and Indian politics as they affect Indian Americans: elections, candidates, policy and the debates that reach the diaspora.
381 articles
After the marches fade, ordinary cases remain. Policing is necessary but insufficient — most threats come from known people. The case for community-led safety.
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Every April 14, India garlands Ambedkar's portrait, ignoring his argument: caste cannot be reformed, only abolished. Words enshrined; work unfinished.
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By 2050, one in five Indians will be over 60. Pensions are fragmented, geriatric care an afterthought. The dividend is maturing — and India isn't ready.
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Indian political framework built after independence is losing its relevance to govern a complex and diverse country. Six and a half decade of democratic…
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Saudi Arabia posted job ads for eight new executioners in 2015 as beheadings surged — 85 executions by mid-May, nearly matching the whole of 2014.
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'Ponytail-gate': a sexual-harassment complaint was laid against NZ Prime Minister John Key after waitress Amanda Bailey described his repeated hair-pulling.
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In the 2015 Delhi elections, a ten-student IIT-Bombay team built a sentiment-analysis tool that helped AAP read voter mood on social media — and win 67 of
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In January 2015, US Attorney Preet Bharara announced corruption charges against New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — one of Albany's most powerful men.
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In January 2015, Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal told Maria Bartiromo that oil would 'never' see $100 a barrel again — history had other plans.
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In December 2014, AAP's Yogendra Yadav urged PM Narendra Modi to speak out against 'ghar wapsi' reconversion campaigns as the Rajya Sabha stalled for a
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Germany's CSU party proposed that immigrants 'should be obliged' to speak German at home — then, after nationwide mockery, rewrote the demand within days.
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Preet Didbal, daughter of California farm laborers, was sworn in December 2, 2014 — the first Sikh American woman elected to a US city council.
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Pope Francis joined Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Anglican and Orthodox leaders in a December 2014 Vatican declaration to end modern slavery by 2020.
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In November 2014, Jashodaben filed an RTI with Mehsana police asking what security and facilities she was entitled to as the Prime Minister’s wife.
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In 2014, a 22-member team of Vedic Brahmins from Karnataka performed yagnas in Oman for the health of Sultan Qaboos — one of the most unusual interfaith
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In November 2014, MPs voted 181–1 on a motion to clarify that sex-selective abortion is illegal in Britain. The vote was symbolic — the law never followed.
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In November 2014, Shama and Shehzad Masih were beaten and burned in the Kot Radha Kishan brick kiln where they worked. A TI account of a lynching that
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On October 3, 2014, Modi launched Mann Ki Baat, the monthly radio address that became a fixture of his premiership. A TI essay, from the archives.
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Samantha Lewthwaite went from the widow of a 7/7 bomber to one of the world's most wanted terrorism suspects. TI's 2014 profile, reviewed as an archive.
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There are certain times in any nation’s history which define and change its direction and today is definitely one of those for India. What we are seeing…
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