Jews represent less than 0.0004 percent of India’s population. So how can its dating sites claim to have millions of Jewish profiles? What does it…
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Modi’s mob revel in the ritual public humiliation of Muslim girls and women after a school hijab ban, another step in the Hindutva plan to…
India has close ties with both Moscow and the West. But its neutrality now looks like tacit endorsement of Russia’s ruthless invasion of Ukraine –…
Six decades after his death, India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru is making headlines again, hand-in-hand with Israel’s founder David Ben-Gurion, whom Nehru cold-shouldered during…
Over the last seven years, India-Israel relations have warmed up faster than the six preceding decades, thanks to a propitious mix of ideology, pragmatism and…
India’s tiny Christian minority now joins Muslims as targets of the majoritarian mob, baying for a theocratic Hindu state with Modi as high priest. Only…
India’s tiny Christian minority now joins its Muslims as the target of the majoritarian mob baying for a theocratic Hindu state, with Modi as its…
In conflicts in Lebanon, Israel, Gaza and Turkey, dead bodies have been used as leverage for years. Now, in Kashmir, India is instituting a similar…
Inside the rise and rise of Yogi Adityanath, 49 year-old priest, chief minister of India’s most populous state, sexist superpatriot and demagogue for a Muslim-hating,…
For decades, A.Q. Khan charmed civil and military leaders with his lies, just as he did when I met him. But his profiteering off proliferation,…
‘My name is Khan, and I am no longer wanted’: In India’s once-famously pluralist Bollywood, being Muslim is now a liability. As Modi’s Hindu nationalist…
Kabul’s new Taliban rulers say they won’t interfere with India. But for New Delhi, as more militants cross the border into an increasingly fragile Kashmir,…
Modi’s Hindu nationalists have turned Gandhi’s killer into a hero of India, feeding vigilante violence against Muslims, redefining ‘patriotism’ as blind obedience and tarring anti-Modi…
Modi is talking to world leaders about the threat of Islamist radicalization. But the real threat to India comes from a radicalizing Hindu majority fueled…
Cultivating the Modi myth: How the illustrated booklets I bought for 50 rupees at a train station kiosk explain his devotees’ loyalty, despite COVID and…
Father-son rabbinic dynasties are nothing new, but Rabbis Sion and Braham David stand out as a family of firsts who have an especially strong dedication…