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the weekly chai
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APRIL 10, 2026
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THE GOLDEN FIELDS EDITION
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🏆 30th Annual Webby Awards Nominee
One year in. The internet noticed.
The Weekly Chai turns one on May 1st. In under a year, you helped
build something the Webby Awards nominated in two categories. The
People's Voice Award is yours to give. Voting closes April 16th
and takes 10 seconds.
✦ Vote Now · Closes April 16th →
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01 · Global Wires
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🌍 Global · Trade
After SCOTUS Killed the Tariffs, the Trade War Didn't Stop
A 10% blanket surcharge is live under Section 122, with the White House signaling it may hit the 15% statutory cap. USTR also launched Section 301 investigations into 16 global trading partners, including Bangladesh and India, with comments due April 15. The outcomes will shape the remittance and export economies the diaspora is tied to.
PIIE
Tariff Tracker
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🇺🇸 United States · Space
Humans Are Coming Home From the Moon. Tonight.
Artemis II splashes down off San Diego at 8:07 PM ET, the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years. Four astronauts flew further from Earth than any humans since Apollo 13. The moon shot that was supposed to happen in our parents' generation is finally happening in ours.
NASA
Space.com Live
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🇮🇳 South Asia · Diplomacy
The Country That Fought India in May Is Now Hosting the World's Most Important Talks
JD Vance departed for Islamabad today, the most senior US official to visit Pakistan since 2011, alongside Witkoff and Kushner, for direct US-Iran ceasefire talks starting Saturday. Less than a year after Operation Sindoor, Pakistan is Washington's most important South Asian partner. The US has offered to mediate India-Pakistan next. India has declined.
CNN
Al Jazeera
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✦ The Scene · Music
Coachella 2026 Opens Today. Nine Asian Artists on the Bill.
BIGBANG's 20th anniversary, KATSEYE's desert debut, BINI as the first Filipino P-pop group at the festival. Nine Asian and Asian diaspora acts - a record. And Dialled In Records just launched with Island-EMI backing for South Asian artists across genres. The infrastructure for a generation of diaspora musicians is being built in real time.
IBTimes
MBW
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The Ceasefire Happened. The Strait Didn't Open.
Iran is still conditioning Hormuz passage despite the ceasefire. Brent is back above $97, the dollar's safe-haven premium is holding, and this weekend's Islamabad talks are the real rate-moving event. A deal reopens the strait and tightens the window. A breakdown and rates move against you. Watch the news. Move accordingly.
Not financial advice. Your advisor. Always.
Al Jazeera
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CNBC
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Wise.com
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03 · Living Well
· Identity this week
What Ambedkar Jayanti Actually Asks of the Diaspora
Ambedkar Jayanti, April 14, is not a day of grief or protest. It is
a day of architecture. B.R. Ambedkar designed a constitution for a
country that had spent millennia organizing inequality, and the
question his birthday raises for the third culture reader is a direct
one. What have you made that outlasts your inconvenience? In a week
when U.S. policy is actively narrowing who belongs, Ambedkar's work
is the reminder that rights are blueprints, not gifts. Put his actual
words in front of someone who doesn't know them.
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Samata
Equality
The only foundation Ambedkar said was worth standing on,
and the one the third culture reader is still being asked
to fight for, on both sides of the ocean.
Chai Words · Daily Cultural Puzzle
A new cultural word, phrase, or concept every day.
Train your 3rd culture brain in 60 seconds.
Play Today's Puzzle →
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04 · Play By Play
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⛳ Golf · The Masters — R2 Live
Rory Going Back-to-Back?
McIlroy is at -7 and leading Round 2 at Augusta, two clear of Justin Rose and Sam Burns (-5). The defending champion is on a different level so far.
Masters Leaderboard
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🏏 Cricket · IPL 2026
Royals Chase Down 202
Rajasthan Royals won by 6 wickets today, knocking off 202 with ease. Table still wide open with the business end of the tournament approaching.
ESPNcricinfo
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🏀 Basketball · NBA
Final Weekend. Then It Gets Real.
Regular season ends this weekend. OKC is the team nobody wants to face, the Thunder dismantled the Lakers 123-87 this week. Playoffs tip off next Saturday.
ESPN
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05 · Menu
Makki Cornbread with Sarson Butter
The harvest asked what you planted. This is one correct answer.
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Mix one cup cornmeal, half a cup whole wheat flour, one teaspoon
each salt and baking powder, one egg, and three-quarters cup
buttermilk. Pour into a greased skillet.
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Bake at 400°F for 20 minutes until golden. Meanwhile, blend four
tablespoons softened butter with two tablespoons whole grain
mustard and a pinch of dried fenugreek.
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Slice warm, spread generously with sarson butter, and eat before
it cools.
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Serves 4, and pairs well with the kind of chai you make when
you're not in a hurry.
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06 · Editor's Pick
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📺 Streaming Now · FX & Hulu
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Love Story: JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette
Ryan Murphy's FX series is better than it has any right to be.
Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette is the performance of the
year so far, playing a woman who knew exactly what she was
walking into and chose it anyway. For a reader who understands
what it means to carry a public identity that was never fully
yours, this one lands differently.
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Where
FX & Hulu ·
Episodes
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Rating
TV-MA
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Watch on Hulu →
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The Cosmic Chai
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This week's energy
The Sun conjuncts Saturn in Aries this week, asking every sign
to stop describing their ambitions and start producing evidence
of them.
The energy rewards consistency and surfaces exactly where
you've been managing appearances instead of making something
real.
Your homework before Thursday
Write down one thing you've been claiming credit for that you
haven't fully delivered on. Decide whether you finish it or
let it go.
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Dates for the Diary
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Apr 14
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Baisakhi and Puthandu, the Punjabi harvest
new year and Tamil New Year; wear something yellow if you're
celebrating either.
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Apr 14
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Ambedkar Jayanti, send someone a quote from
the man who encoded justice for 1.4 billion people.
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Apr 15
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U.S. Tax Day, your filing is due; also a good
day to check this week's remittance rate.
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