Of Coconuts, Bananas, and Twinkies
byCoconut, Banana, and Twinkie are racial slurs – slang terms for those who are from a ‘third culture.’
Coconut, Banana, and Twinkie are racial slurs – slang terms for those who are from a ‘third culture.’
Could bad walking tell us about Regan, Tony Blair, and why the Iraq war went so badly wrong?
Can Modi maintain his delicate balancing act between India, Israel, and Iran? Will his pragmatic multilateralism work?
There is one thing that Gandhi, Nehru, Indira, and Modi have in common – a cult-like, larger than life personality.
Many aspects of xenophobia, discrimination on the basis of caste, colour and creed, existed in India for centuries.
Britain’s royal baby has Gujarati ancestry; India’s diversity is the product of shared genetics of much of the world.
In India, a beach is named after Saddam Hussein, even as some outrage of roads named after the Mughal Emperors who built them.
The history of profanity tells a fascinating tale of psychology, necessity and irreverence.
India is known by many names – Jambudweepa, Al-Hind, Hindustan, Tenjiku, Aryavarta, and Bharat. One country, many names.
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council collectively sell over 70 percent of the arms in the world.
In the Rann of Kutch, a British style student hostel pays homage to the Indian revolutionaries who emerged in London.
Professor Simon Altmann connects the dots between science, art, religion, Plato, Darwin, and his theory of evolution.
Despite claims by the Syrian Government that civilians are not targeted, hundreds of children died & families displaced.
Can the ‘objective’ nature of science alone explain life’s many mysteries? How does religion help us comprehend them?
Loneliness, the most ignored human condition, affects people across the world – the young, the old, married, single & divorced.