The editor's selection of Thoughtful India's longer reporting and analysis on India, its diaspora and Indian American life.
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In 2002 one study drove women off hormone therapy. Two decades later, the FDA and America's gynecologists have changed course, and many women are asking what they were never told.
By Suchitra Sharma||3 min read
Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in 1958 in which a man who could multiply became a genius. Is it possible that soon normal human skills will be extraordinary?
· 8 min read
On The Daily Show, Jon Stewart told the AI bosses to stop selling a cheque for everyone. A century of science fiction explains why that cheque is a trap.
· 6 min read
South Asian gambling harm is often blamed on culture and shame. The research from India, Britain and the United States points to the product and the law.
· 4 min read
A Seinfeld bit at the Chicago Theatre, and the Indian American families who learned Halloween from their children, then took it to Bangalore.
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After a foiled shooting at the Aurora Balaji temple and another season of jewellery burglaries, a look at how the Irish, Chinese, Italian, Japanese and Jewish communities learned to organize, what Sikh Americans have already built, and what the wider Indian American community can borrow.
· 14 min read
Groundwater falling a meter a year, 30-40% of treated water leaking from pipes. India's urban water crisis is already here — not a future warning.
· 4 min read
Pune, Surat, Lucknow, Indore were supposed to relieve the metros. Why Tier-2 cities grew but never became economic engines — agglomeration beats cheaper land.
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India's new middle class buys premium phones while hunting discount deals — aspiration mediated by anxiety in an economy that offers no guarantees.
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Twenty years of the OCI card: live, work, and invest in India — but never vote. Why India grants its diaspora nearly everything except political voice.
· 4 min read
Modi's third term opened with consolidation, not revolution: 7% growth, PLI expansion, strong FDI — and the same unresolved jobs crisis.
· 4 min read
$10 billion for chip fabs, PLI for batteries: the hardware push is real — but fabs need decades, batteries need scale, assembly is only the first step.
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Chandrayaan-3 landed at the lunar south pole — a first for any nation — on a $75 million budget. How ISRO built world-class space capability on a fraction
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India produces record harvests and exports while millions of farmers stay in debt and distress. The contradiction at the heart of Indian agriculture.
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India's exam machine sorts brilliantly, thinks poorly: millions of engineers following algorithms, few who question them. Why the incentives make reform hard.
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India is spending $10 billion to build chip fabs and break Taiwan's grip on semiconductors. The ambition is real; the power grids, supply chains, and
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Five years after Galwan killed 20 Indian soldiers, the LAC is stable but unresolved — buffer zones, not peace. Normalisation means management, not settlement.
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Indians get ~70% of H-1B visas while the green-card backlog stretches decades. As US restrictions tighten, the IT model built on visa arbitrage is ending.
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India's industrial map centered on Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore. The Chennai-Kochi corridor is emerging as South India's counterweight — ports, labor, arithmetic.
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Charles III's 2025 throne speech echoes Elizabeth II's 1977 Ottawa visit — on monarchy, soft power, and royal speeches in a fracturing Canada.
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