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Nawaaz Ahmed on new book Radiant Fugitives and finding his place as a gay Indian-American Muslim in a polarised world

Nawaaz Ahmed talks about his debut novel, homosexuality, Islamophobia, and how the personal is political and the political, personal.

HBO docuseries on Barack Obama is an assiduously constructed study on former US president's clash of identities

Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union has no qualms scrutinizing former US president's cultural authenticity as a Black leader, his political idealism, and his defiant diplomacy in the face of racial inequity.

Catch up: A wrap of the week gone by — news, views and ideas

In case you missed the bus, here's a recap of our coverage and analysis of the top events, and a pick of the week's best features.

Obama could have been speaking about India – almost

Indians, too, see a three-ring circus each night, hoping that politicians of all hue compromise on their rigid positions and come together to do what it takes to make life just a little better for ordinary citizens.

Joe Biden chooses long-time advisor and 2014 Ebola response coordinator Ron Klain as chief of staff

Picking Klain, who had also played a central role in the economic recovery plan under Obama, underscores the importance the Biden administration will place on the COVID response

Former White House officials urge Trump administration to commencement ‘post-election transition process’

The call from the Centre for Presidential Transition advisory board comes as the General Services Administration has yet to formally recognise Joe Biden as the president-elect

Donald Trump orders ‘total declassification’ of documents related to alleged Russian interference in 2016 presidential polls

The documents mentioned Hillary Clinton’s purported plan to tie Trump to Russia as ‘means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server’

Govt issues notice to Twitter after recent hacking targeting global high-profile users

Cyber attackers had hacked into the Twitter accounts of high profile users, including Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Jeff Bezos, in a purported Bitcoin scam.

Looking at the journey of how NASA and its astronauts became one of SpaceX’s biggest customers

NASA planted the seeds for a commercial program, starting a competition for companies to send cargo to the International Space Station.

US Election 2020: Joe Biden continues virtual campaign from home during lockdown as worries over fundraising, digital presence pile up

Joe Biden has no foreseeable plans to resume in-person campaigning amid a pandemic that is testing whether a national presidential election can be won by a candidate communicating almost entirely from home