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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace February 09, 2021 Source: Getty Summary:  Indian Americans are now the second-largest immigrant group in the United States. Their growing political influence and the role the diaspora plays in Indian foreign policy therefore raises important questions—about how Indian Americans view India, the political changes underway there, and the course of U.S.-India relations. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank yo...

Book Review: The Many Lives of Data in India The book Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India, edited by Sandeep Mertia, delivers a fantastic range of meditations on how data lives, and how we, as individuals and collectives, are shaped by it. File photo of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) collecting data from a citizen for Aadhar. Photo: Reuters. Tech06/Feb/2021 About a decade ago, the CEO of a data analytics firm I worked for in Bangalore vied for the d...

Traversing the overlapping print worlds of Portuguese, Konkani and English, Rochelle Pinto has been studying how colonialism and its aftermath has shaped life in Goa and the larger Goan diaspora in Mumbai and beyond. In this interview with Murali Ranganathan, she looks back at her engagement with print history and its connection with politics and land At what point of time in your career did you realize that you had evolved into a book/print historian from a professor of Eng...

Have politicians lost the fear of inflation? Premium Food and groceries have become increasingly unaffordable over the past few months across Indian cities and towns. Mint 4 min read Inflation has emerged as a key risk to India’s economic recovery but it may not be a political risk factor as yet. Inflation is still low compared to India’s past history, and a weakened Opposition has been unable to capitalize on rising prices so far Share Via Read Full Story After many years, inflation has em...

Indian police use violence as a shortcut to justice. Its the poorest who bear the scars By Mohit Rao Updated 3:57 AM ET, Thu December 3, 2020 Bengaluru, India (CNN)It was minutes into Indias Independence Day when police stormed a slum in the western state of Gujarat where Hira Bajania, 65, was sleeping. In the black of night, he was dragged from his home, taken to a nearby police station and accused, with 11 other men, of stealing cell phones. As dawn broke on a day commemorating Indias free...

Farmers Bill & illusion of a green revolution When the entire North India is burning with farmer’s agitation there is complete silence in Assam. Righty so, Kalpajit Saikia (The writer can be reached at kalpajitsaikia@gmail.com) When the entire North India is burning with farmers agitation there is complete silence in Assam. Righty so, as the debate on the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, popularly known as farmers bill is meaningless in Assam. Wit...