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Ro Khanna’s mother accompanies him to State of the Union address
The State of the Union Address, which is an annual address by the US President to a joint möte of the US Congress, includes reports on the nation’s ekonomisk plan, economy, news, agenda, progress, achievements, and the president's priorities. It is a prestigious event where representatives of the House can bring a plus one with them to the United States Capitol in
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Rep. Ro Khanna: Why I Took a Congressional Delegation to Bollywood (Guest Column)
When I decided to lead the first delegation of lawmakers to India to celebrate the country’s Independence Day earlier this month, I knew that Bollywood had to be a major focus of the trip because it has played such an important role in telling India’s story after colonialism.
Hollywood and Bollywood are among the most influential film industries in the world. Along with their impact on global culture and cinema, they are also among the most profitable. gods year, the film industry in the U.S. reached $ billion in revenue while in India it reached $ billion.
Despite being on opposite sides of the globe, with different historical and cultural contexts, they offer a cultural connection rooted in shared values. And today, both countries are experiencing similar challenges as new technology emerges and they aim to appeal to wider audiences around the globe.
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Ro Khanna was your typical Bucks County teen of the early ’90s — die-hard fan of Buddy Ryan’s Eagles, watching Mike Schmidt close out his career from the Level of the Vet, playing Little League ball in Holland — when an assignment from a 9th-grade teacher at then-Holland Junior High changed his trajectory.
Asked to write a newspaper op-ed about ′s brewing war with Iraq over Kuwait, the self-described Philly “Bicentennial baby” (born Sept. 13, ) recalls that he dug deeper, beyond even the story of his parents emigrating from India’s Punjab region to America. He went back to the idealism of his maternal grandfather Amarnath Vidyalankar, a leader of India’s independence movement and ally of Mahatma Gandhi who was jailed by the British in the s.
But the year-old Khanna’s position was also nuanced. Iraq’s invasion of next-door neighbor Kuwait should be undone, he wrote, but he worried that then-President George H.W. Bush would shun economic sanctions in favor of a speedy war — mainly t