Arrival in the US was never an unmixed pleasure, especially for people from the poorer countries travelling to the 'west'. Things have become worse since September 11, 2001 and the inauguration of...
North American Notes and Queries
Is the making of a national identity a clear-cut, well-defined task that happens once and for all? In seeking to understand the complex genealogy of 'America', one has to consider how amazingly...
The TINA - 'there is no alternative' - argument first developed by the Congress in its heyday is being used emphatically by the BJP today. A similar notion prevailed in the US over the forthcoming...
There is a way in which hostile attitudes towards the poor and towards women and minorities translate into a tolerance of organised collective violence against them even on a frightening scale in...
The American media's sudden interest in Afghanistan and then Iraq and its equally abrupt waning away is symptomatic of the wider 'anti-intellectualism' of our times, visible in every sphere of public...
