United States

Vegetable Or Chicken Curry In The White House?

While Kamala Harris’s mother emigrated to the U.S. from Tamil Nadu, Usha Vance’s parents are immigrants from Andhra Pradesh.
▶17-Sep-2024
Ignatius Chithelen

A Courtship in which India and the US are Playing Each Other

The US seeks Indian support for its geopolitical strategy while India wants to maintain a certain ‘non-alignment’ and yet increase defence purchases. For domestic audiences, the symbolism of Modi’s…
▶20-Jun-2023
Atul Mishra

The Cycles of History

The US departure from Kabul has drawn inevitable comparisons with the exit from Saigon in 1975, but ‘history’s eternal shadow, namely, the future, will always throw up surprises no matter how…
▶31-Aug-2021
Itty Abraham

Twenty Years of the ‘Global War on Terror’

Matters have come full circle in Afghanistan, the main theatre of the ‘war on terror’. Chaos is festering in Syria, Libya, Yemen & Iraq. The failure of U.S. justice presages an unravelling of the…
▶25-Aug-2021
Sukumar Muralidharan

Has the US Dodged the Rise of Far-Right Politics?

Despite Donald Trump’s defeat, the politics of the far-right maintains its presence in the US polity; but the results of the 2020 election also underscore the potential power of a multiracial working…
▶21-Dec-2020
Sara Duvisac, Avanti Mukherjee

Ten Preliminary Lessons from the American Election

Joe Biden’s victory was not narrow but comprehensive, to achieve which the tireless work of women of colour was crucial. Yet, this win is just a punctuation mark in a long & continuing struggle…
▶13-Nov-2020
Kaushik Sunder Rajan