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

Larry Crowne

Ajit Duara

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

Exorcising the Ghost of Geronimo

Shougat Dasgupta

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

David Lepeska

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

David Lepeska

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

In the Greenback We Trust

Aresh Shirali

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

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

Shougat Dasgupta

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

Arindam Mukherjee

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.