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U.S.A, The Kind Granny - My Bread, Butter and Moolah Provider In a Holy Interdependence

There is a fascinating relationship between India and the United States that deserves to be discussed beyond geopolitics, tariffs, trade deficits, and immigration debates. Beneath all the numbers lies a deeply personal story of livelihoods, aspirations, families, and dreams. It is a story of how an economy thousands of kilometres away can influence the everyday lives of millions of Indians. I am an Indian working in IT. Like lakhs of other Indian professionals, a significant part of my income and professional life depends on the American economy. The client may be in California, the project may belong to a bank in New York, and the decisions about budgets and business expansion may be made in an American boardroom. Yet the consequences are felt right here in India, in our homes, bank accounts, and everyday lives. An American company signs a contract, and an Indian professional gets a job. A project expands, and a family in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Pune, or Chennai becomes more financially...
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Why India Doesn't Need Uprisings: The Case for Building, Not Burning

Every few years, pictures arrive from a neighbouring capital: a parliament on fire, a leader escaping by helicopter. Indians then ask whether it could happen here. My answer is that Indian youth have real frustrations, but India has what those countries lacked, working peaceful channels and an economy in which the young have a stake. This is the case for staying on that path of staying in peaceful channels and building an economy that integrates everyone. ## What uprisings actually cost Take Nepal. Over two days in September 2025, Gen Z protests left 77 people dead and caused property damage estimated at more than Rs 84 billion. The government fell, an interim administration took over, and a new party won a near two-thirds majority in the March 2026 election. Yet the World Bank projected only 2.3% growth for the year, and the economy has struggled to keep pace with the political change. The young protesters won a new government but are still waiting for the better jobs. Bangladesh tell...
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A Softer Stance, A Stronger Nation: Why RSS Outreach to Muslims Deserves Encouragement

India has never been one thing. It is a country of many languages, faiths, foods and ways of praying, held together by the simple idea that people who are different can still share one home. So when the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an organisation its critics have long described as Hindu majoritarian and which calls itself a cultural body, speaks warmly of Muslim neighbours, the country has reason to notice. This is the case for welcoming that shift and encouraging it. ## A pattern, not a single speech One kind remark can be dismissed as politics. A run of them across years is harder to wave away. Back in 2018, in a lecture series in Delhi, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said Hindutva does not imagine an India without Muslims. In 2022 he visited a mosque in the capital and met an imam, and he visited a madrasa too. In December 2024, in Pune, he argued against stirring up fresh temple-and-mosque disputes and said everyone is equal. In July 2025, Bhagwat sat down at Haryana Bhavan in New ...
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Equality in Action: China's Rise For A World Which Works For Everyone

I am back in India after my years in America, and distance has given me a clearer view. In the US I learned to admire the openness and energy of a big economy. At home I see how much a country can do when it builds patiently for decades. From both vantage points, the latest news from China looks to me like something to welcome rather than fear. I have always believed a good world order is one where everyone gets a fair chance to grow. India and the US both tend to view China warily, and that wariness is understandable. But a stable world cannot be built to serve only two countries, or only one. It needs China, India and the US all doing well, along with the many nations that trade with them. ## The comeback after the pandemic The pandemic first surfaced in Wuhan and brought closed factories, empty ports and a deep loss of confidence. Many predicted lasting damage. What followed was quieter and more impressive than the predictions: China rebuilt its industry, moved up the technology lad...
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Are We Done With US Culture Change - Are We Done With Fighting Culture, War Mongering Culture, Gun Culture and Climate Change Culture.

America’s next great achievement should be a country where disagreement leaves dignity intact, a troubled person receives help before reaching for a gun, diplomacy prevents another generation from inheriting a war, and prosperity leaves a habitable planet behind. These are measures of a civilisation’s maturity. Has America reached them? Some changes are substantial and deserve affirmation. Fewer people are being murdered, and cleaner electricity is expanding rapidly. Yet mistrust, gun deaths, military confrontation and climate damage remain enormous burdens. America is changing unevenly, with achievements that invite hope and failures that demand much greater resolve. The first problem is the loss of trust between people. Its scale becomes clear when only 34% of Americans in a 2023–2024 national survey said most people could be trusted. That means confidence in fellow citizens belongs to roughly one person in three. This is a deep social weakness. When neighbours become suspects and po...
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Why Can’t We Seek a Soft Landing? Demand for Onetime Resignations or Deep Reform and the NEET Lesson

A minister can leave office in an afternoon; repairing a broken examination system can take years. A resignation can produce applause, but applause cannot secure a question paper, restore a wrongly deleted voter or rebuild public trust. India’s present confrontation over the Chief Election Commissioner therefore deserves a harder question than whether protesters can force another departure: what changes after the departure? Democracy needs the courage to demand accountability and the wisdom to turn confrontation into repair. A soft landing can serve the public well, provided it lands on enforceable reform rather than convenient assurances. The question is immediate. The Cockroach Janta Party, or CJP, has demanded Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. Its announced October 10 mobilisation, described as “Jantar Mantar 2.0”, invokes the earlier examination protests. Opposition parties have ...
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Majestic India On Display in All Her Splendour: In Two Tours By Divine From Across Southern Temple Towers to Northern Sacred Peaks

India rises before the world in an extraordinary procession of beauty: temple towers crowded with celestial figures, granite sanctuaries glowing beneath tropical skies, rivers joining in deep mountain valleys, and Himalayan peaks watching over ancient shrines. Two pilgrimages, one through Tamil Nadu and Kerala, another across the sacred North, reveal the scale of this inheritance. Across journeys imagined over ten to twelve days each, India unfolds as a magnificent meeting of nature, artistry, faith and living memory. Every halt opens another scene; together, they display a civilisation whose beauty reaches far beyond any single journey. The railway window provides the opening panorama. Southern fields spread in luminous green; palms rise above tiled village roofs; distant gopurams announce towns before their streets appear. Between destinations lie smaller treasures: a river crossing, a flower market, a courtyard washed at dawn. The landscape itself prepares the eye for the splendour ...
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