Recent statements by Indian Prime Minister Modi and Foreign Minister Jaishankar suggest that change could be in the air.

Many years ago in West Bengal, I encountered school-age boys playing Carrom or cricket all day. Curious as to why they weren’t at school or out working, they responded: “We are all employed. We do ...

On a stifling April afternoon in Ajmer, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, local politician Shakti Singh Rathore sat down in front of a greenscreen to shoot a short video. He looked nervous. It was his ...

This edition of weekly political economy column outlines five key points that could anchor a thesis on India’s challenges ...

By Sarita Chaganti Singh and Krishna N. Das AMARAVATI, India (Reuters) -A 42-year-old MBA from Stanford is becoming the go-to person for multinationals looking to invest in India, leveraging his party ...

1989 School of Arts and Sciences graduate Eswaran Sridharan, director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India in New Delhi, led a seminar at CASI’s Penn campus counterpart this week discussing ...

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On a recent Sunday afternoon, Vineeta Gupta hosted 20 Indian American women at her home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Fueled by chana masala, naan and rice pudding, they wrote hundreds of postcards in ...

The religious bigotry struck at the heart of India’s secular democratic foundation and the constitutional values.