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The Washington Herald, 1909"The Reign of Terror in India""An Account of the Movement to Shake Off British Rule"By Saint Nihal Singh "A murder case was being tried. The prisoner, charged

Even I’m not this cynical typically, but the lack of any public comments from Biden/Harris suggests that this is in fact an attempt to take Modi down a peg.https://twitter.com/macaesbruno/status/1386093791321407490 That

The "Hindoo menace" is truly upon us, fellow Americans. The evidence? Exhibit A: "...a group of some 30 Indians and Indian Americans stood outside an elementary school here to protest."Exhibit

Written by an Indian-American journo @pahwa_nitish, which shouldn't surprise us. I used to get angry about this stuff (he didn't even bother calling the people involved), but then I had

India trained a post-colonial elite that is exceedingly skilled at talking about India's problems, but totally inept at fixing them. Unsurprisingly, it is a commonly held view among this class

THREAD Shivam's entire thread is worth reading, but this particular tweet deserves some elaboration, as I think it lies at the root of the challenges HAs face in the diaspora.

Violence against women is a massive issue in India, but so little of the discussion after these horrific crimes seems oriented towards the the most obvious problem: lack of police

Thread on the anti-CAA resolutions:The anti-CAA resolutions in cities like SF, Seattle, etc are simultaneously an admission by the activists that their arguments have no actual traction among Indian voters

Pretty remarkable how well Shri Aurobindo’s newspaper writing holds up, though perhaps this more a testament to the lack of progress in indian political thought... “The barefaced hypocrisy of our