All stories by Monali Sarkar
Preet Bharara: A crusader's tenure, a hero's exit
Rediff.com15 Mar 2017Meet the US Attorney who took on Donald Trump.
'This is not the end of the story for Irom Sharmila'
Rediff.com14 Mar 2017Deepti Priya Mehrotra, who documented Irom Sharmila's struggle for peace in Manipur in the book Burning Bright, puts the icon's electoral loss in perspective.
A room with the worst view in the world!
Rediff.com10 Mar 2017A day before iconic street artist Banksy opens Walled Off -- his hotel in Bethlehem, a few feet away from the Israel-Palestine Wall -- we take you inside on a tour.
Life inside an Islamic State training camp
Rediff.com10 Mar 2017As they capture back Mosul from Islamic State, Iraqi and American forces discover an underground train tunnel that was turned into an assault course by IS for its elite fighters.
When India got her first female Supreme Court judge
Rediff.com8 Mar 2017It was in 1989, 39 years after the setting up of the Supreme Court in 1950, that Justice M Fathima Beevi was appointed. Meet the brilliant legal minds who have shattered the glass ceiling since then.
In photos: When 25 American Governors visited India's Ambassador
Rediff.com27 Feb 2017Inside the governors' reception hosted by Indian Ambassador to the US Navtej Sarna -- a first in more than 15 years.
Hate in America: Indians were never immune!
Rediff.com24 Feb 2017From citizenship rights to hate crimes and police brutality, no wave of persecution in the US has left Indians completely untouched.
That February when 'Hindus' lost American citizenship
Rediff.com24 Feb 2017Even as February 2017 will be remembered for the fight Americans have put up for the rights of immigrants, South Asian Americans recall the February of 1923 when the US Supreme Court barred South Asians from becoming citizens.
A Salman Rushdie novel in clothes at New York Fashion Week
Rediff.com20 Feb 2017Stacey Bendet's Alice + Olivia presentation at the New York Fashion Week was inspired by Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence.
When a seat at the White House table becomes meaningless
Rediff.com18 Feb 2017'Having a voice at the table means the other side has to show up to listen. It became clear that wouldn't happen,' says actor Maulik Pancholy, one of the 10 members who resigned from the US president's advisory commission on Asian Americans.
The Hollywood awards season starring Trump
Rediff.com17 Feb 2017Every major awards ceremony in the West this year has seen celebrities talk about diversity, inclusion and politics, sometimes even mentioning US President Donald Trump and his policies by name.
Why did Priyanka Chopra meet Hillary Clinton's top aide?
Rediff.com15 Feb 2017The Bollywood star shared the front row at Prabal Gurung's New York Fashion Week show with Huma Abedin.
Freedom from H-1B: Can Indian IT firms do it?
Rediff.com15 Feb 2017Amid Trump's expected action against employment visas, India's bellwether IT firms reveal they have been preparing for this eventuality for years.
When Dimple Yadav stepped out to campaign...
Rediff.com10 Feb 2017Akhilesh Yadav doesn't need Bollywood stars to power his campaign for the UP election when he has a charming campaigner like his missus.
Life Lessons from a super achiever!
Rediff.com9 Feb 2017Teju Ravilochan thinks being unreasonable has so much potential that he named his company the Unreasonable Institute.
Gaitonde to Raza: The 10 costliest Indian paintings
Rediff.com3 Feb 2017The 'Artery Top 500 Works' list features the most expensive Indian works of art that have been sold so far. Their collective realised price? $367.9 million! As the demand and value of Indian artists grows internationally, we look at the record setters.
A Sikh Captain America in Trump's America
Rediff.com1 Feb 2017What happened when Indian-American cartoonist Vishavjit Singh stood outside Donald Trump's inauguration dressed as Captain America?
Why Trump's immigration ban should worry Indians
Rediff.com1 Feb 2017'We are going to see relatively soon an executive order that deals with H-1B and other temporary visas.' 'We are also going to see an executive order on undocumented people.' 'Undocumented Indians comprise the largest population growth of all undocumented people in this country.' 'Just because India is not named in this executive order doesn't mean it won't be in the future.'
Immigration ban: America Inc vs Trump
Rediff.com31 Jan 2017Donald Trump's executive order prohibiting the entry of people from seven Muslim-majority nations widened the rift between the Trump administration and several leading American companies.
Twitter War: Trump vs badass scientists
Rediff.com27 Jan 2017Defiant employees from multiple US government agencies are fighting the Trump administration's gag orders on climate change and penchant for "alt facts" with rogue Twitter accounts.