Sublime

They were “anti-nationalist and anti-religious” and “anti-parochial,” believing that “anything that divides people into separate groups or identities is bad; removing borders and divisions is good.”

Weeks after Emancipation Day, the process of replacing slave labor began at the docks of Calcutta.

In the 1980s, when my father's Apple IIe computer was brand-new and his hope that his children would marry within the caste was intact, he compiled a directory of the Khatris of North America. The families numbered a couple of hundred, and most cooperated by providing complete listings, including their children's birth dates—which everyone knew was

denizen

constructively actionable.

There’s a telos of self-improvement baked into the immigrant experience.

is a question of focus.

ersatz.

The white sheep comes home to roost.