The skies were blue over 42nd Annual India Day Parade in New York City on 18 Aug, yet the entire event was overshadowed by over a week of protest surrounding a single one of the over 40 floats that flooded the streets of Manhattan. Pieter Friedrich writes maktoobmedia.com/features/why-a…

What caused over a week of controversy over a float in NYC’s recent India Day parade? How did the float symbolize Islamophobic violence? Who is the Hindu nationalist group behind the float? I write for Maktoob. maktoobmedia.com/features/why-a…

There are many beautiful things to showcase about India during Independence Day celebrations -to make our youth hopeful & proud of our democracy & secularism Yet some American Indians chose to display hate & communalism. We condemn this. Maktoob maktoobmedia.com/features/why-a…

Hey The White House and Department of State, when are President Biden and Secretary Antony Blinken going to talk to Chief Adviser of the Government of Bangladesh to discuss the situation in #Bangladesh and explore ways for the U.S. to help with the country's historic transformation after the end of the dictatorship? It is a bit unseemly

While calls to block the float ultimately failed, the sustained opposition to it not only fundamentally altered the legacy of the 42nd Annual India Day Parade, but also united Indian-Americans and allies across many faiths. maktoobmedia.com/features/why-a…

For the uninitiated, what do you mean by “belt treatment”? Is this a medical procedure?

In South Asia, it means "tight slap" or "deal with strongly"! Culturally, we seem to like Dictators! Indira Gandhi was our first taste of dictatorship! Modi today is trying to replicate that same model. He lacks her competence but has RSS hordes behind him! Pieter Friedrich

This awful expression! I don't' remember it being used so much by the media even 10 years ago. Does the creeping-in of these kind of violent words and phrases reflect the growing violence within our society and politics?

Many incidents of anti-Muslim violence have occurred recently in India. What if Muhammad Yunus calls Narendra Modi and asks him to protect Muslim minorities in India? #AllEyesOnIndianMuslims

In a case of “mistaken identity” in India, militias linked to the Nazi-inspired RSS paramilitary murdered a Brahmin (top caste) boy thinking he was a Muslim. Their regret is not over the murder, but over murdering the “wrong” person. newindianexpress.com/amp/story/nati…