Center for Strategic Communication

How English Keeps India Together

By Patricia Lee SharpeGiven his complex parentage (Indian Sikh and Pakistani Muslim) and his own career as a writer in English, both fiction and non-fiction, the latter for British or American publications, it’s hard to understand how Aatish Taseer could have written...

Narendra Modi: That Shocking Costume in New York

By Patricia Lee Sharpe Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appearance at Madison Garden before thousands of Indian-Americans during UN Week was dubbed a “love fest.”  It was certainly a tamasha, which is Hindi for big blast: music, dancing, balloons— plus the true...