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CJP protests brought down a minister, but real reform will be harder

  Over the past few weeks, young people have mobilised to protest India’s broken education system, against the background of a shortage of job opportunities....

Trump in 2025: A view from the hyphen

  India welcomed Trump’s victory in November 2024, as Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar made clear long, long ago, as it seems.  For Indian-Americans like me,...

Sheikh Hasina: no leader is above the law in Bangladesh

  A domestic war crimes court in Bangladesh has sentenced the country’s former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, to death in absentia for crimes against humanity....

California lights up with Diwali holiday recognition

In a landmark nod to America’s growing cultural diversity, California has officially designated Diwali as a state holiday, becoming only the third US state...

How socioeconomic discontent is reshaping South Asia

  It took just under 48 hours for Nepal’s government to be razed to the ground, the flame-eaten parliament building, a literal manifestation of a...

Ganeshotsav : The festival that awakened a nation

  When Ganesh Chaturthi — the festival that honours Ganesha, the elephant-headed and pot-bellied god — arrives, it feels as if this most-recognised icon of...

Kapil Sharma’s newly launched café in Canada targeted in shooting

Comedian-turned-actor Kapil Sharma’s new venture in the hospitality industry suffered a major shock when his café, Kap’s Café, in Surrey, British Columbia, was targeted...

Zohran Mamdani and the Desi progressive wave

  He’s 33. He met his wife on the dating app Hinge. He appears on TikTok videos preaching rent freezes, renewable energy in public schools,...

Dangerous contradictions: Zohran Mamdani

  The NYC mayoral election in 2025 is attracting attention worldwide. The world’s largest metro economy is larger than Australia’s by some measures, a large...

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