America’s Newest Public Enemy No1: The Humble Pressure Cooker
First Post, Op-ed, Posted: May 16, 2013
Now we find the pressure cooker has remained resolutely un-American -- the shining symbol of diversity that needs to be hidden at home.
Categories: Front Page, Law & Justice, War & Conflict
Tags: american, bombings, boston, fBI, pressure cooker, surveillance, suspicion, terrorism, war
Wikipedia’s Sexist Turn: Men Are Novelists, Women Are ‘Women Novelists’
First Post, News Analysis, Posted: May 01, 2013
The latest Wikipedia flap is a reminder that sub-categorizing by minority creates implicit bias.
Categories: Gender & Sexuality, Media, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: jamesgleick, jimmywales, wikipedia
The Boston Marathon: An Indian American Runner Remembers…
First Post, News Analysis, Posted: Apr 16, 2013
This year he was not running it. But ever since the bombs went off at America’s oldest and most iconic marathon, his phone and Facebook wall have been flooded with anxious messages.
Categories: Law & Justice, Living, South Asian, Sports, Top Stories
Tags: bombing, boston, confusion, discipline, freepress, indian, marathon, running, south asian
An African American Writer Finds Her Roots in Bengal
First Post, News Feature, Posted: Apr 13, 2013
This year, Fatima Shaik came to India for the first time to try and solve the mystery in her family tree.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, South Asian, Top Stories
Swiss Tourist Rape 'Unfortunate' for All the Wrong Reasons
First Post, Commentary, Posted: Mar 18, 2013
One thing is tragically clear from the string of recent attacks on women in India – rape is not an exceptional crime in this country.
Categories: Gender & Sexuality, International Affairs, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: Indiagangrapes, indiaprotests, indiarape, swisstouristrape
City of Doubts: Kolkata’s Uneasy Love for Mother Teresa
First Post, Commentary, Posted: Mar 13, 2013
Media in Kolkata have largely ignored a new report in the academic journal Studies in Religion that professes to explore “the dark side of Mother Teresa”.
Categories: Living, Religion, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: charity, Christopher Hitchens, dark side, Genevive Chenard, Kolkata, Mother Teresa, OnOurMinds, religion, saint
A Sorry Apology: David Cameron at Jallianwala Bagh
First Post, News Report, Posted: Feb 21, 2013
Cameron didn’t have to come to Amritsar. India is not holding its breath for a British apology nor does it hold Cameron personally accountable for 94-year-old atrocities.
Categories: Asian, Front Page, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Living
Tags: apologies, british, cameron, david, england, india, jallianwala Bagh, massacre, sorry, south asia
Cambodia’s Death Tourism: Ex-King’s Passing Exposes Spectacular Grief Ritual
First Post, News Analysis, Posted: Feb 06, 2013
Cambodia’s spectacular mourning for ex-king Sihanouk, reveals a nation that finds itself having to benefit from its Killing Fields economy through death tourism.
Categories: Asian, International Affairs, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: cambodiadeathtourism, killingfieldsandsihanouk, mourningforcambodiaking, sihanoukdeath
Rushdie Ban Reveals the Shameful Truth about Kolkata
First Post, Commentary, Posted: Feb 03, 2013
For years, the mention of Calcutta provokes mostly pity from others as if you were speaking of a widowed aunt. Such a good family. But what a sad life.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Living, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: book. ban, calcutta, city, decline, India, kolkata, literature, rushdie, writers
What One 23-Year-Old Taught Us
First Post, Commentary, Posted: Dec 31, 2012
In all the stories about the 23-year old rape victim, it’s worth remembering this: She didn’t want to become a symbol, she just wanted to go home.
Categories: Gender & Sexuality, International Affairs, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: indiaprotests, indiarape, sandiproy