Bobbie and Wallace
Bobbie and Wallace Edwards Almost eight years ago on an early July morning, I got into my Honda CRV and raced like the wind towards Robbins, North Carolina. It’s a small town east of Charlotte where...
View ArticleObama’s big night
I was thinking about the words of Joe Senato, who eight years ago at this time was an undecided voter from Berkley, Massachusetts. After hearing the keynote speech delivered by a guy who was the...
View ArticleCat fight between homeland and home
I just read a CNN-IBN report on the Devyani Khobragade episode that made me squirm. “Devyani’s arrest,” the report said, “has rattled the Indian Diplomatic Corps. “It is forcing the government to hit...
View ArticleLooking like change in India
Voters in India get their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting a ballot. Today was the last day of polling in India’s mammoth parliamentary elections. Five weeks of voting; Nine polling...
View ArticleIndia’s day of reckoning
By Friday afternoon, everything should become clear. Who did more than 500 million voters choose to lead India? India’s day of reckoning is here. Election results will be announced soon. All week,...
View ArticleNo longer one
India now has a 29th state. Telangana. It was six decades in the making, the fruit of a strong separatist movement that argued neglect by successive governments and finally succeeded in breaking off a...
View ArticleIt’s about the women, stupid!
Women will be key in Tuesday’s mid-term elections. I joined colleagues Ann O’Neill and Jessica Ravitz in reporting what women want from three battleground states. Check it out on CNN here:...
View ArticleHow Jimmy Carter paved the way for Obama in Cuba
President Barack Obama made history on his arrival in Havana on Sunday. “The first U.S. president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge visited in 1928,” said all the news stories. Yes, Obama is the...
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