He has tried to give the middle-aged Indian man a hitherto unheard of sexual swagger in the Western imagination. It comes to a bad end, but no matter. The Kamasutra was not written in a day.
New America Media, News Analysis, Sandip Roy, KOLKATA—Facebook might just be the new Gandhi. Barack Obama reached back into history to compare Egypt’s revolution to Gandhi’s great nonviolent struggle against the British Empire. But in Gandhi’s homeland, the bespectacled bald man in a loincloth is just a ghost of revolutions past. In India, where everyone [...]
New America Media, Question & Answer, Sandip Roy, EDITOR’S NOTE: Several GOP lawmakers who took a hardline position on immigration after SB 1070 passed in Arizona are using the party’s electoral success to push for ending “birthright citizenship†in the next Congress. But a new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) says that [...]
New America Media, Commentary, Sandip Roy, I do not know whether, like countless American teenagers, Yves Gomes will be watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I this weekend. If he does, he will probably not recognize himself in the film. Gomes has no lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. But like Harry, 17-year-old Gomes [...]
New America Media, Question & Answer, Sandip Roy, EDITOR’S NOTE: Tamar Jacoby is the president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a nonprofit that organizes the business sector around immigration reform. New America Media editor Sandip Roy interviewed her about the impact of Tuesday’s midterm elections. Roy: Is the new composition of the House and Senate bad news [...]
New America Media:India Abroad, News Report, Sandip Roy, Like thousands of other young Americans, Yves Gomes started college this semester. But few of his new classmates realized that Gomes almost didn’t make it. Though he sounds like any other American teenager, 17-year-old Yves is not American in the strictest legal sense. His parents, immigrants from [...]
New America Media, News Report, Sandip Roy: When San Francisco Sheriff Mike Hennessy wanted to opt out of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s Secure Communities program earlier this year, he was told he didn’t really have that option. “I wrote to the state attorney general, I wrote to ICE officials, and I was [...]
By Sandip Roy: EDITOR’S NOTE: In recent weeks, immigration attorneys in Arizona and other states have been flooded with questions from anxious residents about how to avoid getting detained by immigration authorities and what to do if they or a loved one does get caught. Here’s some advice from Margarita Silva, an immigration lawyer in [...]
