‘Indianised’ dishes and difficult conversations: How Indian-Americans are marking Thanksgiving 2020

‘We actually have to acknowledge that as Indian-Americans, we are racialised as people of colour.’

Anisha Sircar

· Yesterday · 06:30 pm

How a runaway from Punjab with little ‘knowledge of English’ became a coveted writer for US papers

A true trailblazer, Saint Nihal Singh became a peripatetic journalist-writer before anybody else from South Asia took on the role.

Anu Kumar

· Nov 23, 2020 · 11:30 am

What Donald Trump told us about the good, bad and ugly aspects of the USA

Joe Biden comes to power with a message of reconciliation – and a gigantic political challenge on numerous fronts.

Mauktik Kulkarni

· Nov 18, 2020 · 06:30 pm

A new project hosted by an Indian-American highlights musicians of colour and their ‘origin stories’

Sameer Gadhia, lead singer of the American rock band ‘Young the Giant’, talks to Scroll.in about life as an immigrant and recent political developments.

Priyali Prakash

· Nov 17, 2020 · 06:30 pm

Barack Obama was ‘angriest’ when his team leaked a memo titled ‘Hillary Clinton (D-Punjab)’ in 2007

In his new memoir, Obama refers to the memo that attacked Clinton for representing Indian interests, and upset the Indian-American community.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 16, 2020 · 12:07 pm

In BJP’s ‘divisive nationalism’, Barack Obama sees a precursor to America’s Donald Trump era

The former US president recounts how Indian PM Manmohan Singh warned him of politicians being able to exploit ‘the call of religious and ethnic solidarity.’

Scroll Staff

· Nov 16, 2020 · 11:22 am

In new exhibition, Trinidadian-born Renluka Maharaj reimagines Indian indentureship in technicolor

The artist embellishes a colonial-era photopher’s portraits of women labourers in a mixed-medium of acrylic paint, glitter and rhinestones.

Suzanne C Persard

· Nov 14, 2020 · 11:30 am

Kamala Harris is not the only one with an ancestral Chennai connection – Joe Biden may have one too

In 2013, Biden claimed he had a ‘great, great, great, great, great grandfather’ who was a captain in the East India Company.

Tim Willasey-Wilsey

· Nov 09, 2020 · 07:30 pm

The Political Fix: What does 'Goodbye Trump' mean for India – and Modi?

A newsletter on Indian politics and policy from Scroll.in.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Nov 09, 2020 · 09:00 am

Kamala Harris victory speech: ‘My mother believed deeply in an America where this is possible’

Harris, who will be the first woman Vice President, mentioned her mother’s migration from India to the US in her speech on Saturday.

Kamala Harris

· Nov 08, 2020 · 10:02 am

‘For Indian-Americans, Diwali came early’: Celebrations erupt as Biden-Harris win 2020 US election

Though Donald Trump has refused to concede, Americans took to the streets to celebrate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ victory.

Vandana Menon

· Nov 08, 2020 · 01:44 am

The best thing Donald Trump did

In the 2010s, the United States stopped playing the world’s policeman.

Girish Shahane

· Nov 07, 2020 · 09:00 am