A Washington DC think tank added a new term to the discourse on India-US relations a few months ago: oversold. Read more

Karl is a local boy — you can hardly call him boy, though, not at his age — who saw the neighbourhood change before his eyes: the dense forests split by wide interstates, and smaller roads cutting through what were in effect a part of his playground. Read more

When we got here last year, we were struck by how joyless and depressing Christmas celebrations seemed. Wasn’t this their biggest festival? You couldn’t tell. Read more

When I first saw an Occupy DC protestor, I had had to look really hard. There were a handful of them sitting around a corner of the McPherson Square, not very far from the White House. Read more

As the US prepares for the 10th anniversary of the September attacks in 2001, with a national focus so rare in out part of the world, it’s hard to not look for comparisons. So what is India’s 9/11 moment, if any? Read more

I first heard of Hurricane Irene while getting ready for the drive home from Florida. Read more

“India and the US are not dating anymore, they are going steady,” said Harold ‘Terry’ McGraw, chairman of the McGraw-Hill companies and head of the US-India business council, at an event this week.

But the US is doing all the hard work as far as the messaging goes. Or so it seems. Read more

They are immeasurably proud of their heritage, flaunt their Indianness whenever possible and carry the tricolour despite having traded in their navy blue passports for another set of navy blue passports. Read more

The estate agent was prescient, I wasn’t. As soon as we signed the rent agreement, she handed me a list of the public utilities that I needed to inform for the purpose of billing – power, water and gas essentially. Read more

Mandeep will have to go without his last name, in fact that’s not his real name at all. And for obvious reasons, I won’t name his store either. It’s generally called the Indian store, but that’s not the name. Read more