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Gandhi to Modi: The debasement of India's political discourse

New Delhi, April 23 -- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi may have become a figure of derision and diminishment in a growing politico-cultural constituency in India but he never fails to astonish even through ... Read More


Will India's high youth joblessness impact election outcome?

New Delhi, March 17 -- The number of under-30 electors in India alone is bigger than any other country worldwide. With over 215.8 million eligible voters in that demographic-197.4 million in the age g... Read More


Gandhi's extraordinary idea of trusteeship of wealth at a time of vulgar ostentation

New Delhi, March 1 -- Reading Mahatma Gandhi's remarkable ideas about wealth and trusteeship against the backdrop of the in-your-face opulent "pre-wedding" revelries of the Ambani scion Anant and his ... Read More


Ghazal king Pankaj Udhas: A soft, reassuring emblem of diaspora yearning

New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- Listening to Pankaj Udhas, who passed away in Mumbai on Monday at age 73, felt as if he was perpetually singing and the world had just fortuitously chanced upon his soft, reassur... Read More


Macbeth on the banks of the Sabarmati

New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- Watching Shakespeare's Macbeth on a moonlit night on the banks of Ahmedabad's Sabarmati river, somewhat distracted by a cacophony of honking vehicles and an occasional ambulance ... Read More


Ameen Sayani: The father of radio entertainment in the Indian subcontinent

New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- For the first two decades of my life, daily popular entertainment meant the radio and the radio meant Ameen Sayani. Even as an 11-year-old, when I first heard his iconic hit para... Read More


Passage of Resolve Tibet Act in US Congress significant, but will it move Beijing?

New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- The overwhelming passage of a bill in the US House that pressures China to resume direct negotiations with the Dalai Lama's envoys or the democratically elected leaders of the Ti... Read More