I just finished reading India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent by Audrey Truschke. The blurb on the page describes it as follows: Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. In this magisterial history, Audrey Truschke tells the fascinating story of the region historically known as India—which includes today’s India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Afghanistan—and the people who have lived there.

Photo by Cedric Fauntleroy on Pexels.com By now, many of you will have heard that the next mayor of New York City is Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Muslim man of South Asian heritage and Ugandan background. He is the youngest mayor the city has elected in a century and its first Millennial in the role. Politically, Mamdani is a Democratic Socialist with a deep record of critiquing capitalist and colonial systems.

Photo by Lisa from Pexels on Pexels.com For those not familiar with me, by undergraduate and graduate education has all been in the field of psychology. While my undergraduate degree was in Psychology (general), my Masters and PhD were both in Applied Social Psychology, not in Clinical Psychology as everyone assumes. As an academic field, psychology is not, in general, critical.