Features
THE FEATURED ARTICLES
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Spotlight: Physician, Professor, Philanthropist, and More
March 2014 -
Dr. Indran Indrakrishnan: On the Move. The genial, talented Dr. Indrakrishnan, GAPI’s incoming president, is an energetic doer and a stalwart of the local South Asian community.
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Perspective: Standing Left of the Right
March 2014 -
To Save Marriage, Make It Work for All. Who owns marriage? Who sits on its board? Who drafts its rules and guidelines in an imaginary general body meeting of all who said “I do”?
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Opinion: You Cannot Download Freedom of Expression
March 2014 -
Whether one agrees or not with Wendy Doniger, author of The Hindus (withdrawn by Penguin India), the question is "Are moving away from a liberal, tolerant society?"
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Roti? Maybe. Macaroni? Yes, please!
March 2014 -
As an Indian mom in America, the author learned not to take her children’s food preferences—especially their rejection of what she’d eaten as a child—personally.
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Travel: Land of Legends
March 2014 -
Tripura, nestled in green hills between Northeast India and Bangladesh, has a wealth of traditional art and culture, history, and biodiversity that cast a spell on everyone.
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Commentary: Why the Voter May Already Be a Winner
March 2014 -
Many factors make the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections of 2014 different from earlier ones—and more advantageous for the voter: the deluge of news, internet access, EVMs, etc.
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Americana: Guns: The Battle over the Second Amendment
March 2014 -
Does the Second Amendment give "the people" the right to bear arms? For most of our nation’s history, most legal scholars and American citizens understood that it gave the militias that right.
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Satire: Pore li’l Devyani
February 2014 -
Devyani, the Damsel in Distress…and all the parties responsible for the fiasco—a satirical blame game.
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Commentary: Interfaith Knots: Why Not?
February 2014 -
Say “I do” to Interfaith Marriages: As old taboos fall, Bhagirath Majmudar, MD, a community veteran who has presided over more than 200 weddings, makes a case for interfaith unions.
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Culture: Song of India
February 2014 -
Indian influences on American art and culture can be traced back as far as the late 1800s, but it was mainly after the 1965 Immigration Act that they became so strongly felt.
