As the Afghan peace process continues to sail through with all its complexities, neighboring India has begun to take an active role in resolving the conflict. New Delhi has almost always maintained a low-profile in Afghanistan, mainly focusing on development projects and aiding the Afghan government with military training and infrastructure. Now with US-led negotiations […]
The United States is experiencing what is arguably its most chaotic year in living history. The administration has to contend with a pandemic that has robbed the lives of more than 212,000 if its citizens and is spreading uncontrolled. The consensus according to various polls suggests Americans blame their President for his failure to lead […]
Two US congressional candidates in California’s San Francisco Bay Area — Republican Ritesh Tandon and Democrat Rishi Kumar — exemplify the pragmatically transpartisan attitude of India’s Hindu nationalist lobby as it seeks to place its preferred candidates in positions of power in America. When he met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015, Saratoga City […]
After a gap of five years, the Narendra Modi regime in India has succumbed to the opposition Congress Party and its leader Rahul Gandhi’s demand once again. Last time it was the withdrawal of the Land Acquisition Bill in 2015 and this time, in allowing a delegation of the Congress Party led by Rahul Gandhi […]
Now that President Donald Trump has tested positive for Covid-19, the Department of Justice is almost certainly focusing on the 25th Amendment, which provides for the transfer of presidential authority to the vice president. No one who works for a sitting president wants to think about that amendment. But in any administration, worst-case scenarios get […]
Justice lays buried under dust and grime in India. Secularism breathed its last. As the vultures swooped down from the red skies to fill their bellies with the carcass of brotherhood, oneness and inclusivity- one religion was declared more equal than the others. Tracing the Babri Masjid dispute; the title dispute arose first in 1885. […]
Congressman Pete Olson, a Republican representing Texas’s 22nd congressional district, recently called out Democratic candidate Sri Preston Kulkarni for taking “big time money from Nazi sympathizers” in reference to strong financial backing of Kulkarni’s candidacy by leaders in US affiliates of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an Indian paramilitary. Olson is retiring, leaving an open […]
One of the biggest secrets in American politics — what’s in the tax returns that President Donald Trump has refused to release for so long — has at last been revealed, by the New York Times. Times journalists Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig, and Mike McIntire obtained “tax-return data extending over more than two decades” related to […]
There are systematic efforts of affiliates of the RSS and the BJP to influence the perception of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his hyper-nationalistic agenda in the U.S. through what they call “diaspora diplomacy.” Pieter Friedrich, a freelance journalist specializing in analysis of South Asian affairs, points this out in his latest article, through […]
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump took the stage together at last year’s “Howdy, Modi” event in Houston, Texas, a rising young star in the Republican Party filmed from a seat near the front. It was “incredible being with 50,000 fellow Indian Americans in Houston,” wrote 28-year-old Ohio State Representative […]