Achal Mehra
Electronic Vaudeville
Stories of war and peace, glory and tragedy, excess and desperation, are not told, because the media are engaged in electronic navel gazing
The Right Thing
What you measure affects what you do. if you don’t measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing.”
Getting Past the Licks
Upwardly mobile resident Indians, who once eyed their non resident competition with a mix of envy and resentment, have traded the envy for snickering contempt.
That Sinking Feeling
Even as the economy shows growing signs of improvement, there is a lurking fear among many economists and forecasters that we are witnessing a false lull before a storm of epic proportions.
Spreading Pain
It is hard to empathize with an out-of-work, $80,000-a-year techie tossed out on the manicured lawns of his half-million-dollar estate in New Jersey
Unfit To Print
The Times conspired with scores of other news organizations that knew about the kidnappings on a news blackout for seven months.
Fooling Me Thrice
If Manmohan Singh’s election victory seems like a landslide, it is only because the media were so wide off the mark
Prosecute Bush and Cheney for War Crimes
If, as seems likely, the trail leads to former Pres. George W Bush and former Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, they should be indicted and tried for war crimes.
Fasten Your Seat Belts, Folks
Even in the rosiest scenario we are staring at a two-year long recession, with the worst yet to come. Equally easily, we could tip into a severe depression
United Socialist Republic Of America
The global capitalist system is on its knees, as irretrievably down as the Soviet Empire was two decades earlier.
Slime Fest
The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas celebrating overseas Indians worldwide has become a boondoggle and a self-aggrandizing jamboree for the politically connected.
The Wrong Lessons
Can we please halt the sappy musings about swinging a beer at Café Leopold or picking at samosas at Taj’s Sea Lounge?
Controversy Derails Sonal Shah
Under growing public pressure from progressive Indian American groups, Sonal Shah, a member of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition advisory board, who was rumored to be
After The Music Stops
Barack Obama’s first task must be to open up the secret files of the Bush administration, so that no future president ever dare engage in such heinous atrocities again.
Reinventing For Bad Times
Unbridled capitalism, championed by Wall Street and the Republican Party, has collapsedas decisively as the autocratic socialist Soviet State did 17 years earlier.
Obama Trounces McCain 4 to 1 Among Asian Indians
A new national survey finds that Barack Obama has a lopsided lead over John McCain in the presidential elections among Indian American voters.
Obama's Promising Hope
After eight years of an administration that was openly contemptuous of intellectual thought, it will be a welcome relief should Barack Obama -- a man who brings intellectual curiosity and a nuanced understanding of the world to the enormous global tasks awaiting the next occupant of the White House -- win the race for the U.S. presidency.
Political Game Changer
The center of gravity of the Indian American political scene shifted this election cycle from the old guard in both political parties.
Hillary Has Still Not Released Delegates
Even as Hillary Clinton takes to the Convention floor this evening, she has still not released her pledeged delegates to support Barack Obama.Several Indian American
Obama: "Not only do I think I'm a desi, but I'm a desi."
At a San Fransisco Fundraiser on Aug 17, Barack Obama endeared himself to his Indian and Pakistani American contributors by playfully identifying himself as a
