Before the sun rises, my mother opens a drawer and extracts several tablets from small bottles. They are a cool, dusty brown in color, and sit on the counter while she takes out her small mortar and pestle,...

Throughout our childhoods, the Hindi film industry, Bollywood, acted as our primary connection to our Indian roots. On evening drives, we would listen to Bollywood classics. Over the weekends, everyone...

Indian Armed Forces and the Chinese People's Liberation Army faced off in deadly clashes in the Himalayan region of Ladakh in June of this year; a continuation of the series of armed standoffs along the...