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Long Awaited New Year's Gift

Dual citizenship for overseas Indians has finally arrived.  As we went to press at the close of this year came the heartening news that the

The Asian Century

It is left to India and China, who have in the past, frittered away their most creative energies in wars and conflicts to rise above

Outsourcing Angst

Outsourcing to India is the stuff of political football this presidential election cycle.

Naked In The Bush

The sheer incompetence of the Bush administration in the war on terror now stands exposed. It's time for Americans to elect a new chief.  The

What A Stunner!

The elections results in India threw everyone for a loop.

Defying the Imagination

The 9/11 commission report establishes the extraordinary incompetence and ineptitude of the Bush administration.

The Nowhere Man

The struggle for the overseas Indian identity.

Citizenship Striptease

Union Minister of State for Non Resident Indian Affairs Jagdish Tytler announced in early August that dual citizenship registration would begin this September. If that is

Bury Bush In A Landslide

Pres. George W. Bush's political handlers have apparently struck upon an agenda for his next term. It is difficult not to snicker. It is patently

How Osama Won the War on Terror

Bush is implicitly conceding victory to Al Qaeda by constantly invoking the fear of terrorists in his presidential campaign.

Fool's Gold

The promise of dual citizenship was nothing short of calculated political deception by the Indian government.  Overseas Indians who have been anxiously awaiting the introduction of

Green Card Blues

What's that space between a green card and citizenship?

Swan Song

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the war in Iraq, which the conservative establishment projected as harbingers of the new American century, may ironically

Multiplicity of Identities

Seek not, and ye shall find

My Tsunami Journey

We are all casualties of disasters that unfold on television.

Honey, I Just Called to Say I Love You

Long distance relationships are not for the faint-hearted.

Nice Concept, Lousy Taste

The encounter with America has transformed us, whether we want it, or like it, or know it.

Left Out Hypocrisy

If they weren't so hypocritical, left-wing Indian immigrant groups would have been out protesting the U.S. government's action instead of abetting it in railroading Narendra

Money And Politics

The Indian American community is stolidly Democratic, an exit poll finds, debunking developing conventional wisdom in Republican circles.   The media, both Indian and mainstream, lapped

Keep On Thumping

The resounding thumping the Republican Party received in the recent elections comes as a welcome relief to a long nightmare and renews confidence in the

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