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JFK Jr. in India: When an Astrologer Told the Young Kennedy "You Have to Be the Son of a King
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The New Green Card Application Changes are Expected to Have an Outsized Impact on Indian Technology Workers
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Romila Thapar's 'Just Being': A Historian Reflects on a Life Lived Within the Flow of History
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1133+ words) Romila Thapar, one of India's most influential historians, has published an extensive memoir that traces her journey from childhood in British India to her role as a pioneering scholar who profoundly shaped the understanding of India's ancient past " and her…...
Love Actually: Our Family's Trek Through London's History, Heritage, and High Tea
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An Ungainly Bromance of Donald and Zohran: The Whole Affair Left Much to Decipher and Read Between the Lines
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Rajiv Gandhi, the Most Elegant and Complicated Leader of Modern India That He Almost Lived to See
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (275+ words) To look back at Rajiv Gandhi's legacy decades after his departure'and more than forty years since he reluctantly stepped into the political arena'is to examine a transformative, deeply polarizing, yet fundamentally decent figure. He remains one of the most elegant…...
Tulsi Gabbard Resigns as Director of National Intelligence After Tumultuous 15-Month Tenure
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (1227+ words) Tulsi Gabbard resigned as President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence on Friday, citing her husband's cancer diagnosis, ending a controversial 15-month tenure marked by claims about Obama-era intelligence manipulation, internal divisions over the Iran war, and questions about her…...
The Sound of Silence in Oslo: On Modi, Power, and the Oldest Question in Democracy
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (941+ words) There is a tell that experienced diplomats develop, a slight recalibration of the body that happens the moment a press conference ends without questions. The shoulders drop a fraction. The eyes find the exit. The retinue moves. It lasts perhaps…...
Trump on a Rickshaw: How America's Publicity Blitz in India Meets the Complex Politics of MAGA and Hindu Nationalism
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (318+ words) The U. S. Embassy's splashy Freedom250 campaign " decorating New Delhi's iconic three-wheelers with the president's face " lands in a country where Trump's popularity is real but complicated, his policies have strained bilateral ties, and Hindu nationalists on two continents have discovered that their…...
Congratulations Stephen, You are Known: A Viewer Confessions on the Eve of the Last "Late Show With Stephen Colbert
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (1029+ words) I keep thinking about that booth this week. So with apologies to the host and to whatever saints are still on call at the Ed Sullivan Theater, I have a few things to get off my chest before the lights…...