Ashish Kumar Sen

When Gen Pervez Musharraf suddenly declared himself president in June 2001, US State Department spokesperson Richard Boucher had publicly bristled at the Pakistani leader's audacity.

A few fund-raising organisations come under the scanner for diverting overseas charity money into RSS propaganda activity.

While Indian politicians are reluctant to disclose what they spend on election campaigns, the US Congress has created an independent agency to monitor the financial activities of candidates in the build-up to federal elections. This is done to ensure transparency in the election process.

Could the US have prevented the 9/11 attacks?

A dab of hyper-reaction from the US dampens business and portends a tourism drought.

Indian, Pakistani friends in the US live by an uneasy censorship of politics; in the UK, ghettoisation has long taken root.

Two Silicon Valley academics have put out conflicting reports on the involvement of US-based Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs in their home countries.