Confronting Caste Privilege & The Need To End Hinduism (As We Know It)
I was 11 years old when I completed what my family describes as the “thread ceremony.” It took place in our ancestral village in West Bengal. Alongside my cousin who[…]
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Novelist Arundhati Roy & Her Mission To Inspire In The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Anjula Gogia, the activist bookseller from Another Story Bookshop in Toronto, had patiently nudged me over a few weeks to introduce and host Arundhati Roy on stage when she read[…]
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A Case Of Willful Blindness? POTUS’ Endorsement of Modi Ignores Human Rights Violations
This month Time magazine released its annual “TIME 100” list of the year’s most influential people and included Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After all, he is the newly-inaugurated leader of[…]
Why I Went To See Narendra Modi At Madison Square Garden
“Why?” If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me last week why I was going to the Narendra Modi event in Madison Square Garden on Sunday, I’d be[…]
Hot News Mix: Dosa With a Side of Murder, Mumbai’s Seatbelt Crew + More
Extra gunpowder, please. For a man who’s built a colossal empire on the “holy trinity of south Indian snacks” (dosa, idli and vada, for those who were wondering), P. Rajagopal[…]
India Elections 2014: Is it Time to Update the File on Narendra Modi?
So it appears that Narendra Modi is on the cusp of becoming India’s next Prime Minister. We’ll begin to get a real picture of the election results in about a[…]
Hot News Mix: Are Intellectuals Really Backing the Hateful BJP? + More
• Oh, dear. Apparently Indian intellectuals are backing Narendra Modi and the BJP, whose most greatest hits include supporting Section 377. [Quartz] • The Hundred-Foot Journey is being billed as a[…]
Hot News Mix: A New Beau for Padma Lakshmi; An Internet Tycoon Escapes Prison Time; Modi’s British Biographer + More
Top Gere. Padma Lakshmi’s got a penchant for silver foxes — first Salman Rushdie, then venture capitalist Teddy Forstmann, and now…Richard Gere? Even CNN.com took time off from its exhaustive[…]
Hot News Mix: This 97-year-old Man was the First Person to Cast a Ballot in Independent India
The Power of Voting. Google India has released yet another emotional ad. In 1951 — the year of the country’s first election — Shyam Negi became the first person to[…]