America
The Death of Counterculture
Shougat Dasgupta
Even ten years after 9/11, American popular culture continues to mimic the hollow piety of the political establishment. Granted the honourable exceptions
Exorcising the Ghost of Geronimo
More than the sobering effect an ill-advised codename might have had on giddy Americans celebrating the Osama killing, it was a reminder of the country’s own historical injustices
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
Muslim in America: The New Stigma
With Congressional hearings on radicalisation looming, Islamophobia is on the rise in the US
In the Greenback We Trust
A brief history of the dollar in India. Or, more accurately, how the dollar came to enchant Indians so
More Cardboard Cutouts
Indians are popping up on American television screens in new and still typecast ways, typically for the laughs they get. Watch awhile, though, and you know this is mostly about America coming to terms with emerging realities
Parody Central
What Obama has done to America is visible in what its comedians are saying. Take, for example, two avowedly apolitical rallies recently held in the US capital
Call of the Road
The lure of a job got Arindam Mukherjee to pack his life in his car and travel the breadth of the American continent and back. He conquered the road, and also regained his confidence.
Loud Silence
Don DeLillo is perhaps at the height of his powers, using less and less to say more and more about life in contemporary America.
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