In fact, the Trump administration dangerously complicated matters, offering more proof of why we need experts, what it disparages as the “Deep State.”
India
Posted inFeatured
Conflict in Kashmir
A good reason, and a bad one, not to worry (too much) about nuclear war.
Posted inMagazine
Modi Operandi
A chronicle of the rise of Indian nationalism offers lessons for defeating our own version.
Posted inPolitics
Kamala Harris: Woman of the World
An Indo-American with African-American roots, the Californian can build relations that will strengthen America. Here’s how.
Posted inFrom The Archives
Inside the Temple
In the spring of 1988, Paul Glastris, now editor in chief of the Washington Monthly, wrote this dispatch for The New Republic magazine after he and his wife Kukula Glastris interviewed Sikh separatists who had seized control of the Golden Temple of Amritsar in Punjab, India. Weeks later, the separatists died in gun battles with the Indian military.
Posted inFeatured, July/August 2021, Magazine
The World’s Most Important War on Big Tech Comes from India
The protest against Facebook by the country’s farmers is the first grassroots effort of its kind. We should all pay heed.
Posted inMain, Political Animal, Politics
In India’s Covid Crisis, Echoes of a Colonial Past
Pilgrimages have spread pandemics before and after independence.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Hindu Nationalists Are Using COVID-19 to Fuel a Humanitarian Disaster in India
Will the U.S. take notice before it’s too late?
Posted inPolitical Animal
Hindu Nationalists Seek to Deny Muslims Indian Citizenship
India is the biggest democracy in the world, and it will have major consequences if it becomes a country just for its majority Hindu population.
Posted inJuly/August 2019, Magazine
King Modi
India’s recent election shows that majoritarian nationalism is hard to defeat.
