by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Mar 24, 2015 | Monitor
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...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Mar 9, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Lodi Garden is not a manicured place. Its ambient vegetation is Delhi’s scrubby woodland, the scrappy growth that springs back after a dose of over-civilization. But there are lawns, too, stubbly grassy expanses to play cricket on, to picnic...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Oct 9, 2014 | Monitor
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...
by Naman Jain | Jul 14, 2014 | Monitor
India has been abuzz with the recent election victory of Narendra Modi. The former Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is renowned for the economic success that he led his state to in his 12 year-tenure as Chief...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Mar 17, 2014 | Monitor
Patricia Lee Sharpe If the past is predictive, there’s little reason to worry about the mechanics for India’s parliamentary elections, which are scheduled to begin on April 5 and roll across the country, phases by phase, for thirty-six days. What does worry me, for...