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America’s New Iran Strategy

The goal of America’s latest sanctions is to reduce Iran’s export earnings drastically while shielding the global economy from oil price spikes

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13 Jan 2012 | BY Shailendra Tyagi
Has Pankaj Mishra Ever Been to South Dakota?

For a writer whose first book was a travelogue around small-town India, Pankaj Mishra seems strangely unwilling to engage with the complexities, or provincialities, of the United States.

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8 Dec 2011 | BY Ethan Casey
(Fading) Superpower Games

America has spent the last decade reshaping the world in its own disfigured image. Will it spend the next one recoiling from the result?

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8 Sep 2011 | BY Shougat Dasgupta
The Death of Counterculture

Even ten years after 9/11, American popular culture continues to mimic the hollow piety of the political establishment. Granted the honourable exceptions

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8 Sep 2011 | BY Shougat Dasgupta
Larry Crowne

In this feel-good movie, Tom Hanks celebrates the ordinariness of American life

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13 Jul 2011 | BY Ajit Duara
Exorcising the Ghost of Geronimo

More than the sobering effect an ill-advised codename had on Americans, it was a reminder of the country’s own historical injustices

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19 May 2011 | BY Shougat Dasgupta
Mixed Marriages and a Referral

People of Indian origin appear readier than ever to join America’s great melting pot—marrying people of other ethnicities in growing numbers

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21 Apr 2011 | BY David Lepeska
Muslim in America: The New Stigma

With Congressional hearings on radicalisation looming, Islamophobia is on the rise in the US

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27 Jan 2011 | BY David Lepeska
In the Greenback We Trust

A brief history of the dollar in India. Or, more accurately, how the dollar came to enchant Indians so

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29 Dec 2010 | BY Aresh Shirali
More Cardboard Cutouts

Indians are popping up on American television screens in new typecasts, still typically for the laughs they get.

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16 Dec 2010 | BY Shougat Dasgupta
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