Superman has always looked like the American flag -- a symphony of red, white and blue -- streaking through the sky. Of course, the inconvenient truth is that America's most beloved superhero is what the Immigration and Naturalization Services would dub an "illegal alien." He crashlanded into the country without...

Leo DiCaprio will never portray him on the screen, but the disgraced Sri Lankan American moneyman Raj Rajaratnam could well be the Jay Gatsby of our times.

The story of Raj Rajaratnam versus Rajat Gupta is playing out in the media like F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel --...

When I went to the United States for the first time, long before 9/11, I wondered if immigration officials would harass me, a single young man from a turbulent part of the world. I didn't have to worry. Customs officials and their formidable sniffing dogs were much more interested in...

Devesh Khatu ran the Boston Marathon twice -- once in 2009 and once in 2010.

This year he was not running it. But ever since the bombs went off at America's oldest and most iconic marathon, his phone and Facebook wall have been flooded with anxious messages.

Khatu once set...

Barack Obama has apologized for calling Kamala Harris "by far the best-looking attorney general in the country." This was AFTER he had already praised her as "tough," "fair," "brilliant" and "dedicated."

Political commentator Joan Walsh said the comment made her stomach turn.

Ms. Walsh must have a delicate stomach....

In 1996 Bill Clinton signed the Defence of Marriage Act which defined marriage as being between a man and a woman, a signature that gay rights activist Michelangelo Signorile called "an indelible stain" on his presidency. Earlier this month, Bill recanted in an op-ed in the Washington Post....

The gang-rape of the Swiss tourist in Orchha, Madhya Pradesh was front page news in newspapers across India. The reverberations of the shocking story were felt well outside India's borders. Even friends from as far away as California, emailed me the story.

But while going through the newspaper, it was...

Diamonds are forever, and they are for your EYES only.

So India, you can look but don't even dream about getting the Koh-i-noor back.

Instead David Cameron has given India a parting gift -- a post-colonial word -- returnism.

"I certainly don't believe in returnism, as it were," he...

David Cameron thinks that the massacre that happened at Jallianwala Bagh in India was a "deeply shameful event in British history."

In my condolence book, that's as close to a ringing apology as you can expect from a sitting British Prime Minister for the massacre of 1919.

Certainly Cameron sounds...

Let me admit off the bat that I am not the world's biggest wrestling fan. Nor do I stay up till odd hours of the night to watch the Olympics live. But even I can tell that tossing wrestling out of the Olympics program is terribly unjust.

Wrestling deserves...

At the Golden Globe awards, lifetime honoree Jodie Foster revealed something a Bollywood celebrity would never, ever 'fess up to.

She came out.

Not as a lesbian. I mean she did come out as a lesbian. Well, sort of, without saying those actual words. It was a "I am not...

She was 23. She came from Ballia from Eastern Uttar Pradesh in India. She was a paramedical student. On December 16, she thought she was boarding a bus in Delhi. But in fact, she was boarding a nightmare. That nightmare has ended in a hospital in Singapore.

That is all...

Ravi Shankar was our Columbus. While one explorer came looking for India, the other took India to the world. Perhaps that's why it's only fitting, that though I grew up in India, the first time I saw him perform was not in India, but at the Kremlin in Moscow.

I...

This is shaping up to be one royal mess. Nurse Jacintha Saldanha is dead. The Australian radio hosts behind the prank call to the hospital say they are "shattered, gutted, heartbroken." Apologies are flying all around and the share price of Southern Cross Media, the owner of the radio station,...

In 1992, I was a fresh-off-the-boat graduate student in the US.

Bill Clinton was running for president against George H.W. Bush. Ross Perot was acting as the third wheel. It was the first presidential campaign I was witnessing and an exciting one. But the person who stopped me in my...

I have one indelible memory from election night 2008.

A gay man was standing outside the grand ballroom of the St Francis hotel in San Francisco where the Democratic Party's election result watching jamboree was in full swing in front of giant television screens. He had one finger in his...

One word makes all the difference.

Especially when it's said by Bill Clinton.

At a campaign rally stumping for Barack Obama in Virginia, a hoarse, raspy-voiced Bill Clinton turned to the cheering crowd.

"As you can see, I have given my voice in the service of my president," he

The sky is falling in America. It's all because of one poll. A Pew poll done after the first presidential debate has Obama supporters in a complete tizzy.

Andrew Sullivan on The Daily Beast had his finger jammed on the panic button.

Look: I'm trying to rally...

Sometimes political campaigns get in the way of life.

The most heart-rending example of that was when candidate Barack Obama paused to remember his grandmother after her death, days before the election.That pursed lip, the single tear he wiped was terribly moving because it genuine. It was...

A mysterious man in California hires a soft porn director and tricks some low-rent actors into making a trashy movie about the Prophet Muhammad.

Now an Iranian foundation ups the price on Salman Rushdie's head saying that if he had been killed earlier for blasphemy, this newest anti-Islam film would...