THE EDITORIALS
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Indian General Election 2014: the Choices Are Ineptitude, Anarchy, and Communalism!
April 2014 - The Indian voter is faced with the painfully unenviable task of deciding which will be the least of evils: Rahul Gandhu (ineptitude), Arvind Kejriwal (anarchy), or Narendra Modi (communalism).
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When individuals falter it is sad; when States falter it is serious!
February 2014 - Of significance in the Khobragade case is how the officials conducted themselves. It is sad for Indian-Americans that both the countries dropped the ball in this diplomatic debacle.
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A Diplomatic Debacle
January 2014 - Who would have thought that the diplomatic ties between the U.S. and India could be suffer a major setback, not by issues surrounding nuclear disarmament or Indo-Pak squabbles, but by the arrest of a relatively low ranking consular officer?
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Disappearing Childhood Independence and Mobility
December 2013 - What will this lack of independence and mobility, along with other factors such as being addicted to electronic devices, mean for the psychological health of our next generation?
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What we are thankful for
November 2013 - It is a precious cycle: not being pressured to compromise our content makes Khabar more appealing to our readers; and that in turn makes it more beneficial to our advertisers.
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Racist rants are not the big story. Multiculturalism is!
October 2013 - The thing that matters most about Miss America 2014 is that it is yet another indicator of a nation willing to embrace its growing multiracial and multicultural makeup.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.