Little India




	Why Are They Hiding?
	Indian American Republicans always ask us to forgive their politics.

	Ronnie & Me
	Ronald Reagan made me into an unabashed leftist.

	Eating Their Hearts Out
	South Asian comics are ready to conquer the world, Bush permitting.

	Sonia Gandhi and the Hypocrisy of the Saffron NRIs
	It is a disgrace on the BJP that its leaders revile the Constitution openly and use every racist and cruelly cultural nationalist argument against Sonia Gandhi.

	Indian Coconut
	The future will be a fierce political battle between those who stand for equality and justice and those who walk in step with entrenched wealth.

	Till Ethnicity Do us Part
	His desi credentials notwithstanding, Bobby Jindal does not get my vote.

	In The Affirmative
	We cannot afford to sit on the sidelines as others do the heavy lifting for us.

	Carvaka’s Example
	The peaceful hopes of Desis.

	Follow the Money
	Do you know where your charitable contributions are going?

	PropaGandhi Ahimsa in Black America
	The influence of Gandhi on the American non violence movement.

	The Perennial Questions
	Those who clean their own toilets are American; those who get others to do it for them are certainly desiI.

	Aerial Bombardment in the Racist Contemporary
	Where is the Geneva Convention now?

	“Men” in Quotes
	What’s behind the trend of anglicizing Indian names?

	Hindutva for a Few Dollars a Day
	There is no way to tell the arms bribery story and not offer a fundamental criticism of the Hindu Right and its shenanigans whilst in power.

	The Lunatics Running the Ashram
	But the Brahmanical NRI lives in accord with the general ethical failure of the four stages of life. The sundered stages means that the young person studies, then earns, then contemplates, and finally renunciates.

	Let Them Drink Pepsi
	They are thirsting for water in Indian villages hit by the drought, but Pepsi is everywhere.

	The Sickness of Xenophobia
	State-sanctioned xenophobia feeds the sickness of people like Richard Baumhammer, who killed five minorities on April 29.

	It's May Day. I'm Predctable
	Is the dollar too a Vedic concept?

	Desis for Mumia
	South Asians organize for the cause of death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.

	The Smiling Revolutionary
	The "Other" Indian in Silicon Valley.

	Memory of Elephants: BJP in Power
	The BJP is set in its ways to distort the complex heritage of India.

	Citizens of the Shadow World
	They come, risking life and limb, crossing hostile borders and churning oceans to reach the Promised Land