Latest stories

We’ve published over 1,650 stories at The Juggernaut diving into South Asian culture, politics, history, profiles, business, and tech. Here are all of our stories for you to peruse, with the most recent first.

Bilingual manhole cover at San Antonio, TX zoo

Why America’s Manhole Covers are “Made in India”

A simple inscription embedded in the streets of America’s cities reveals stories about global trade.

Sneha Mehta

WhatsApp is a Petri Dish of Coronavirus Misinformation

Why it’s so hard to stop fake news on the giant messaging platform.

Sinduja Rangarajan

Guava (Abhilash Baddha for The Juggernaut)

Pyaara se Pyaar or the Love for Guava

How the fruit came to represent my childhood in Delhi.

Madhushree Ghosh

Masala y Maiz: Colonized Tastebuds Not Welcome

The Mexico City restaurant doesn’t just serve a mix of flavors from South Asia and Mexico — it’s also unapologetically political.

Taz Ahmed

Zoho headquarters in Chennai, India (Samuel John)

The Indian SaaS Juggernauts

The new darlings of Indian tech have been disrupting their U.S. counterparts with similar or better offerings at lower prices.

Varsha Bansal

Charting the Resurgence of Sri Lankan Coffee

Sri Lanka, once the third-largest coffee producer, is leaning into its coffee heritage and shaping a new market for single-origin premium coffee.

Rida Bilgrami

The cast of Family Karma (courtesy Family Karma)

The High Stakes of 'Family Karma'

This isn’t just another 'Real Housewives' franchise. There’s a lot on the line with Bravo’s latest series.

Ishani Nath

Jameela Jamil at London fashion week (George Darrell, December 9, 2009)

The Uncancellable Jameela Jamil

In a time where beauty and marginalization are both strange forms of currency, some react to the Jameela Jamils of the world as hoarders of wealth.

Sarah Thankam Mathews

LOS ANGELES - JUNE 4: Ricardo Montalban as Khan Noonien Singh (center) in the movie, "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (Release date, June 4, 1982) (CBS via Getty Images)

The Appeal of Khan Noonien Singh

Revisiting Star Trek’s most iconic Indian villain.

Nur Nasreen Ibrahim

Rolex Rasathy (courtesy of Rolex Rasathy)

The Rise of Sri Lankan Diaspora Music

Fifteen years after M.I.A. released her first album, a new wave of singers, rappers, and producers from the island are making their mark.

Isha Aran

A commuter wearing a facemask while traveling on the Delhi Metro, on March 12, 2020. (Photo by XAVIER GALIANA/AFP via Getty Images)

Indian Chill in the Age of Corona

On Monday, India told residents to “prepare, but do not panic.” Right now, however, it looks like Indians are doing neither.

Erin Blair

Mira, royal detective, with Prince Veer solving a case (Disney Junior)

Mira, Royal Detective, is on the Case

Disney, too, wants a bite of the South Asian content market.

Ami Vora

Filter Coffee from Saravana Bhavan (Wikimedia)

Filter Coffee Deserves Its Moment

In a nation of tea drinkers, South India’s signature drink, kaapi, has remained largely in the background.

Nikhita Venugopal

A crowd of more than 50,000 people cheer President Donald Trump and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, at Howdy Modi! at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

When Parents Love Modi

What happens when the people who condone Hindutva are your family?

Meghna Rao

“Not Indian Enough”

Despite maintaining their Indian traditions for over a hundred years, Indo-Caribbeans still grapple with defending their identity.

Sabrina Malhi

Original caption: NEW DELHI, INDIA MARCH 20, 1975: Descendant of Begum of Avadh named Begum Wilayat Mahal (45) with her daughter Sakeena (19) and son Ali Raza (17) were occupying the second-class waiting room at the New Delhi Railway Station for the past three months. (Photo by N Thyagarajan/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

The Jungle Prince and the Western Gaze

How Western media built and unraveled a myth.

Devanshi Patel

The Delhi Riots in Photos: Fake News, Real Blood

Understanding the 2020 Delhi anti-Muslim pogrom in Modi's censored India, in photos.

Erin Blair

Fake News, Real Blood

Understanding the Delhi anti-Muslim pogrom in Modi’s censored India.

Erin Blair

Elizabeth Warren Holds a Mirror to Our Failing

Nobody *deserves* to be president. But Warren deserved better than she got.

Sarah Thankam Mathews

A view of Supreme Court building on February 12, 2018 in New Delhi, India (Photo by Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Why India’s Supreme Court is the Last Recourse for Justice

Historically the greatest obstacle to rewriting the country’s constitution, the highest court today is being subverted by Modi’s government.

Kapil Komireddi