Editorial

THE EDITORIALS

The Need for a Strong Umbrella Organization
August 2013 - Indian-Americans have been a wildly successful lot; strong community infrastructure helps our youth excel. But there has been widespread in-fighting within dozens of our organizations.

Nothing Uncommon About Common Core Text Books
July 2013 - Indian-Americans care for quality education. And there is nothing necessarily regional about core subjects of primary education. Let's not have politically motivated tampering.

The Need for Archives
February 2013 - A professionally curated archive is an indispensible tool for any community that takes its roots, history, and journey seriously. What are we doing to archive our history and our stories?

Gun Fundamentalism Plagues America
January 2013 - The Arab world has jihadi fundamentalists. We, in America, have gun fundamentalists. Let's think about some of the mindless slogans and disingenuous strategies being used to cloud the issue.

A historic event for the Indian-American community in Atlanta
December 2012 - Prompt and professional service is a two-way street. Even the best staff can be rendered ineffective when dozens of people call daily to ask questions that are answered on the website or forms.

Seeing Through the Myths
October 2012 - An editorial favoring Barack Obama—followed by a counter opinion column endorsing Mitt Romney by Sadanand Dhume, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Why today’s Republican Party is stacked against Indian-American interests
September 2012 - Why the GOP is as incompatible with the Indian-American community as the Democratic Party is with fundamentalist Christians.

Celebrating Our Freedoms in America
July 2012 - Activist Harsh Mander opined that a democracy should be judged not just by how much it upholds the will of the majority, but also by how it treats its minorities. The Indian-American community in the U.S. is quite anxiety-free.

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon Lives On
May 2012 - “Many Americans think of Indians as strange foreigners with an inaccessible culture and horrible accents.” Yet, America was envisioned in a cosmopolitan spirit. Caricatures like Apu will become relics soon...

Queer about Gays (Dharun Ravi Case)
April 2012 - We live in a society where until recently homophobia was institutionalized in our vaunted military, and where a major political party still continues to engage in anti-gay activism. Then why make the culpability of Dharun Ravi so much bigger than that of the society?

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