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The Crying Hitler syndrome

New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of the German Third Reich (1933-1945), never openly wept, though he was reportedly tearful on occasion. Music moved him, particularly Richard Wagner's (... Read More


Who is afraid of Sonia Gandhi?

New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- Your columnist is looking forward to Sonia Gandhi's 544-page memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, which will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in the US two months from now. It wa... Read More


Return of the Ugly American

New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- Americans try and succeed at looking their best (other than the poor, and the mass of President Donald Trump's unwashed voter base). Americans wear the best clothes; they have th... Read More


A visitor's guide to American decline

New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- Ilast visited America in 2022,during my father's finalSpring, andstayed fortwo and a halfmonths,squeezingina visit to Peoria, Illinois, and Boulder, Colorado,formy youngsters. Th... Read More


Trump's Iran war is running out of missiles and excuses

New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- Your columnist woke up one morning in America to find the news outlets abuzz with the story of President Donald Trump evading an assassination attempt by hiding in an airline cat... Read More


The kids won't get fooled

New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- In some respects,whenGen Z(spearheadedby the Cockroach Janta Party)protestedIndia's corrupt examination system in July, it echoed theUS'Gen Z movementwhere students protested the ... Read More


Brothers in arms

New Delhi, July 30 -- Afterlivingin America for a month, one notices a resemblance between Home MinisterAmit ShahandPresident Donald Trump's political advisorStephen Miller,whoholds the titlesof deput... Read More


The sound of two democracies

New Delhi, July 23 -- On the streets of Brooklyn, in the bluest district in New York, one of the USA's bluest (Democrat) states, there is a sullen silence over the deaths of three more American soldie... Read More


Mamdani's New Deal

New Delhi, July 16 -- Six months into his job, and New York City's (NYC) Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces, despite a hectic agenda of providing welcome relief forworking classresidents, a lot of hostility f... Read More


Making America 1976 again

New Delhi, July 9 -- Over the weekend, America celebrated its 250thbirthday, technically its "semi-quincentennial" or its "quarter-millennial" Independence Day.Incidentally, this columnist was here, i... Read More