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Hinduism for Americans

With the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit in progress, most Indian Americans are in a celebratory mood in welcoming him and praising him for major improvements in both economy and peace in India during his tenure.

Reining twits in

One consequence of this resolve was that bans were lifted on some 62,000 accounts, and, as Australian authorities have noted, some have resorted to egregious misuse of the country’s free speech laws.

Encountering Ellsberg

Dan Ellsberg was loathed especially for courageous acts that many disapproving colleagues knew deep down that they should have emulated. His release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 spurred anti-war momentum enormously and proved what critics had been saying all along. I was well aware of him from that moment forward, although, as we learned later, we both had been tear gassed during the 1971 Mayday demonstrations in Washington DC but in different areas of town. Dan soon emerged as a moral figure who never ever pretended to be holier than thou, which made him all the more attractive