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Vinay Lal

Los Angeles, New Delhi
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Covers:  Politics, history, culture, cinema, literature, philosophy, art, political thought, contemporary world, globalization, South Asia, world politics, sexuality
Doesn't Cover: engineering, computer science, hard core science, accounting

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Vinay Lal’s Biography

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Vinay Lal is a blogger, cultural critic, writer, public commentator, and Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he has been teaching since 1993. He writes widely on Indian history, politics, public and popular culture; Gandhi and nonviolence; the Indian diaspora; colonial histories; American politics; and global culture. His intellectual interests also include history and theory, historiography, political philosophy, the Global South, and the politics o…

Vinay Lal’s Journalist Portfolio

The Trouble with Kamala - Open The Magazine

The Trouble with Kamala - Open The Magazine

This article looks at Kamala Harris in relation to the question of identity politics and argues that she work…

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Patriots Against the Virus - Open The Magazine

Patriots Against the Virus - Open The Magazine

This article probes the social and political epidemiology of the coronavirus and argues that the response of …

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The deep ties between Gandhi and the American civil rights movement

The deep ties between Gandhi and the American civil rights movement

Though it is common to link Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's name to that of Mahatma Gandhi, the African America…

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A Country In Search Of Itself: Reflections On The Occasion Of India's Independence Day

A Country In Search Of Itself: Reflections On The Occasion Of India's Independence Day

There can be no doubt that India waged a struggle for freedom that is unique in the annals of world history. …

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The Desecration Of A Statue: Gandhi And Race

The Desecration Of A Statue: Gandhi And Race

Gandhi's statues have been vandalized or taken down in recent years and especially in the wake of the BLM (Bl…

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Articles

‘I Can’t Breathe’

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By Vinay Lal
| Economic and Political Weekly Verified
Murder of Henry Nowak, Racism, and the America-effect in Global Politics The murder of Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old university student in the United Kingdom on 3 December 2025, has triggered a political storm, stirred up by White supremacist and ethnonationalist groups. The United States federal government officials have attempted to use the murder to boost anti-immigrant politics.
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The twisted tale of two men tied together by Hiroshima and Nagasaki is an allegory for today’s world Original

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By Vinay Lal
| Scroll.in Verified
Tsutomu Yamaguchi and Charles Donald Albury died within months of each other. The former lived to the ripe old age of 93, and passed away in January this year [2010]; the latter died in May 2009, at the age of 88. Neither of them were household names in their respective countries, yet they were noticed in obituaries scattered across newspapers.
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Modi’s Government Aims to Trample India’s History

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By Vinay Lal
| Scientific American Verified
India has since 2014 been governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a Hindu nationalist party notorious for its intolerance for competing visions of the “idea of India.” Led by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, his party’s rule has led to unchecked control of the media, widespread and zealous suppression of dissent, and tacit (and sometime open) support of bigotry against Muslims, Christians and lower-caste Indians.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I started writing for Indian publications 30 years ago. My first articles appeared in the Economic and Political Weekly.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, I am from the generation where typewriters were common!

How is social media changing news?

In some ways, we don't really even know what's "news" anymore. in a post-truth universe, accepted definitions have been overturned.