Recording the dawn of Obama age. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] I was in Delhi's American Center when CNN declared Barack Obama's victory. Americans started crying. Although Delhi’s traffic mess can’t be sorted out, Obama or no Obama, I too shed a few tears. My hands, too, trembled while taking photographs. But now I wonder if I was crying because White House got its first black master or because I was jealous of US of A. He’s their Obama, not ours! Is this true? It's true! We won, we won Hush, Obama speaks Boo Palin Tears, happy tears

How Delhi's Democrats helped Obama become the US Prez. [By Carolyn Sauvage-Mar, the chair, Democrats Abroad-India. She was elected Delegate for Obama to the Democratic National Convention; picture by Mayank Austen Soofi] Barack Obama is the next American President. Wow. We Democrats in Delhi, along with the rest of their counterparts in India and the US, were seriously optimistic about electing Barack Obama to be our next President. However, having been in the opposition for eight long years, we had gotten used to… well, losing. During the months of campaigning, a friend of mine looked me in the eye and said, “You realise that we’re going to win, right?” I actually hadn’t ever thought that thought, consciously, until he said it out loud. We