US and Indian politics as they affect Indian Americans: elections, candidates, policy and the debates that reach the diaspora.
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After Anoushka Shankar's revelation and a damning Human Rights Watch report, a 2013 TV panel confronted India's child sex abuse crisis — and the silence
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A 2012 remark by a Karnataka High Court judge sparked outrage — but a national health survey found 54% of Indian women themselves said wife-beating could be
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Schools Superintendent Jennifer Gray said she expects school board members to meet within the next two weeks to determine if disciplinary action is warranted…
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The National Commission for Women and some parliamentarians on Monday came out in support of Kashmir's first all-girls rock band 'Pragaash' whose singing was…
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David Coleman Headley received 35 years in a U.S. federal prison for scouting the 2008 Mumbai targets, spared the death penalty by his cooperation.
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After France intervened in Mali in January 2013, Islamist groups tied to al-Qaeda pledged retaliatory attacks on French soil.
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Two Chicago teenagers, 14 and 15, were shot dead hours apart on January 11, 2013, in Humboldt Park and Little Village, in separate attacks.
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After the January 2013 Mendhar beheading, Indian intelligence sources claimed Hafiz Saeed had offered Rs 5 lakh for an Indian soldier's head as a trophy.
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The NRA reported about 100,000 new members after Sandy Hook, as fear of gun restrictions drove record gun sales instead of gun control.
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The National Father's Day Council named Bill Clinton its 2013 Father of the Year, honoring his devotion to Chelsea amid predictable commentary.
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In January 2013, Joe Biden warned that Obama would act on guns with or without Congress, floating executive orders ahead of a victims' meeting.
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Pamela Geller's AFDI bought 228 NYC subway ad spaces for posters pairing the burning World Trade Center with a Quranic verse on terror.
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At Nitish Kumar's Janata Darbar in Patna, a young woman slashed her own palm to be heard. All she wanted was computer training and a chance at a job.
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Furious at his gun-control crusade, Americans petitioned the White House to deport CNN host Piers Morgan. The White House answered with the First Amendment.
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Gallup's 2012 global wellbeing poll found Latin Americans the most positive people on earth and Singaporeans the least, proving money is not happiness.
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An Atlanta postal supervisor, a coworker, and four accomplices pled guilty to stealing $3 million in U.S. Treasury checks from the mail.
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After Sandy Hook, CNN's Piers Morgan called gun-rights advocate Larry Pratt 'unbelievably stupid' on air, igniting a debate on guns and journalism.
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First-grade teacher Kaitlin Roig hid 15 students in a classroom bathroom during the Sandy Hook shooting, promising them they would see Christmas.
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Remembering the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting: 20 first-graders and six educators, and the lives they were living.
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After the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre on December 14, 2012, an editorial: the gun lobby's arguments have run out, and the law must change.
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