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Soumya Shankar
Soumya Shankar
Soumya Shankar teaches journalism at Stony Brook University, New York, and writes about the politics and social movements of South Asia

Indian-American voters have long been left-leaning, but a slight conservative shift this election could give Trump a boost in swing states.

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The Chinese-developed video-sharing app has more than 200 million monthly users in India. Among its biggest fans are young, impoverished Muslims to whom fame, not fortune, is the most valuable currency

The Texas event may have changed some minds but Indian-Americans are primarily Democrats and love for Modi won’t necessarily translate into love for Trump’s immigration policies.

The fear Muslim numbers will overtake Hindus in certain parts of the country is an old clarion call of Narendra Modi’s BJP and its support base, and critics fear Kashmiris are being reduced to a minority in their own state.

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About 85 million young people will be eligible to vote for the first time in this year’s elections. But is rap music really the way for politicians to show that they’re down with the kids?

Like white nationalists, Hindu nationalists have been scapegoating Muslims as a way to rally their base. An Islamophobia campaign under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gone into overdrive

Trans people in India today often live on the margins, banished from their homes and forced to sell their bodies for sex. Yet once they were considered divine – and if this former reality TV star has her way, they will be again