11 articles
One NRI said three years in Paris made her 'more Indian than ever' — and the internet pushed back. Inside the diaspora's oldest identity argument.
By Thoughtful India Staff||6 min read
Bo French's 'foreigners displacing Americans' post targeted South Asian UT students. Why the bipartisan Texas backlash cuts deeper than one tweet.
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India's brain drain is shifting: since 2015, IIT graduates choose Indian startups over US firms and founders return to build. The reversal isn't complete.
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$125 billion a year — more than FDI, from the Gulf to New Jersey. India's remittances flow invisibly through acts of obligation, love, and calculation.
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Kamala Harris, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy — four million Indian Americans punch far above their numbers in US politics, holding structural power nationally.
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It’s lunchtime at the home of the Consul General of India in New York, Dnyaneshwar M. Mulay.
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Comedian Sahil Shah's reaction video to Hindi film songs captures something universal: the involuntary surrender to Bollywood's joy. From the TI archives.
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On September 28, 2014, PM Modi told 20,000 at Madison Square Garden that PIO cardholders would get lifetime visas and the PIO and OCI schemes would merge.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novels map the interior lives of Indian and immigrant women — and much of their power lies in what her characters leave unsaid.
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Toronto-born Sim Bhullar, a 7-foot-5 Sikh of Punjabi descent, became the first player of Indian origin to reach the NBA — starting at New Mexico State.
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Naperville's Simply Vedic hosted a singing talent hunt celebrating Indian classical music — giving young diaspora performers a stage and a community.
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