Podcasts about indian diaspora

How and why did Hindu nationalism become popular among India's diaspora after India's independence in 1947? This is the central question of Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism, a 2023 book by the historian Edward Anderson.The book interrogates the distinctive resonance Hindutva ideology has overseas, and the multiple ways in which the diaspora engages with British politics and society, while sustaining connections back home in India.Anderson is assistant professor in History at Northumbria University in Newcastle. He was previously the Smuts Research Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge, where he obtained a PhD in History.Anderson joins Milan on the show this week to discuss the trajectory of Indian migration to Britain, the founding of the first overseas Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) shakha, and the Emergency's impact amongst the diaspora. Plus, the two discuss the role of the diaspora in funding politics and the emergence of “neo-Hindutva.”Episode notes:1. “A Reappraisal of Indira Gandhi's Life—and Legacy (with Srinath Raghavan),” Grand Tamasha, June 11, 2025.2. “The Secret to Indian Americans' Success (with Meenakshi Ahamed),” Grand Tamasha, June 4, 2025.3. “The Indian American Vote in 2024 (with Sumitra Badrinathan and Devesh Kapur),” Grand Tamasha, November 6, 2024.4. “What to read about Hindutva,” The Economist, April 5, 2024.

Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America is a new book by the author and journalist Meenakshi Ahamed. While many immigrant groups have found success in the United States, few have excelled as far and as fast as Indian Americans, reaching heights in a single generation that many thought would take the better part of a century to achieve. Ahamed's new book offers fascinating portraits of several Indian Americans in three distinct sectors—technology, medicine, and public policy. The book tries to understand what exactly accounts for Indian Americans' ability to break into mainstream American culture and their meteoric rise within its ranks.Listeners may remember our 2021 conversation with Meena on her previous book, A Matter of Trust: India–US Relations from Truman to Trump.To talk about her new book, Meena joins Milan on the show this week. They talk about the “godfather” of the Indian tech community in Silicon Valley, the balance between creativity and execution, and the role of caste. Plus, the two discuss the real (and perceived) influence of Indian Americans in Washington.Episode notes:1. Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur, and Nirvikar Singh, The Other One Percent: Indians in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).2. “Understanding India's Diaspora,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.3. Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, and Milan Vaishnav, “Indian Americans at the Ballot Box: Results From the 2024 Indian American Attitudes Survey,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 28, 2024.4. “Meenakshi Ahamed on U.S.-India Relations from Truman to Trump,” Grand Tamasha, February 17, 2021.

The Indian government has launched an upgraded Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) portal to offer a more streamlined, secure and user-friendly experience for millions of people of Indian origin living overseas. The revamped platform aims to simplify the application process and resolve earlier challenges.

We'd love to hear from you. What are your thoughts and questions?In this conversation, Ashutosh Garg shares his remarkable journey from a military background to becoming a successful entrepreneur and author. He discusses his experiences in international business, the significance of the Indian diaspora, and the evolving perspectives on immigration. Ashutosh also delves into his insights on management wisdom derived from Indic scriptures and reflects on the lessons learned from his father, emphasizing the importance of fatherhood in personal development.Main Points:Ashutosh Garg's journey spans multiple countries and industries.He emphasizes the importance of education in Indian culture.The Indian diaspora has significantly contributed to global economies.Ashutosh's podcast aims to create a digital library of knowledge.His books focus on management wisdom and personal development.Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical in modern organizations.The role of a father is crucial yet often overlooked.Ashutosh's experiences in healthcare have shaped his entrepreneurial path.India's economy is rapidly growing and evolving.Writing has been a transformative process for Ashutosh.Connect with Ashutosh Garg:https://www.equationcoaching.com/gargashutosh@gmail.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/coach-ashutoshgarg/https://www.facebook.com/TheBrandCalledYou/

In this Special Edition of The Core Report, financial journalist Govindraj Ethiraj engages with Professor Rajendra Srivastava, former Dean of the Indian School of Business (ISB) and the Novartis Professor of Marketing strategy and Innovation, to dissect India's evolving business landscape and its implications for economic growth. The episode critiques the Indian business' focus on short-term profitability over long-term investments in product design, supply chain networks, and branding—a mindset that hinders India's competitive edge. Drawing parallels with global leaders like Tesla and Meta, the discussion illustrates how Indian companies can learn from these examples to build sustainable growth strategies.With Maruti as an example of ecosystem-driven success, Professor Srivastava underscores the need to harness India's human capital and technological potential. The conversation also unpacks how the Indian diaspora and Global Capability Centers (GCCs) are reshaping the talent landscape, positioning India as a hub for design and engineering excellence. (00:00) The Challenge of Short-Term Profit Focus (02:30) Resilience and Immunity in Business Growth (05:00) The Ambassador Car's Legacy (07:00) Leveraging Indian Human Capital and Technology (09:00) Looking Ahead to 2025: Challenges and Opportunities (11:00) The Impact of Global Trade and Tariffs (13:00) Indian Diaspora's Role in Economic Growth (16:00) The Service Industry as an Export Sector (19:00) GCCs and Talent Retention in India (22:00) The Growth of Engineering and Design in India (25:00) Economic Value of India's GCCs (28:00) Impact of Visa Restrictions on India's Growth (30:00) India's Economic Outlook: Opportunities and Strategic Focus (35:16) Global Trade Dynamics and U.S. Tariff Strategies (37:00) Education Expenditure: A Key Outflow to the U.S. (39:00) The Role of GCCs in India's Future Economic Growth (41:00) Innovation and Talent Retention in India's Tech Sector (42:00) Closing Remarks and Reflections ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Listeners! We await your feedback....⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Core and The Core Report is ad supported and FREE for all readers and listeners. Write in to shiva@thecore.in for sponsorships and brand studio requirements. For more of our coverage check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠thecore.in⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join and Interact anonymously on our whatsapp channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to our Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube

What is Indian food in America? The country's identity as a melting pot makes for a diverse tapestry of flavors, but that doesn't always equate to easily being able to identify one's place in the culinary landscape. In her debut cookbook Amrikan: 125 Recipes From the Indian Diaspora, acclaimed Food & Wine writer and editor Khushbu Shah presents instructions for preparing dinners, drinks, and desserts as varied as Saag Paneer Lasagna, Pani Puri Mojitos, and Masala Chai Basque Cheesecake. But Shah goes beyond instructions and ingredients, writing about the larger story of Indian food. In a 2019 interview with the New York Times, Shah said, “Food is undeniably intersectional. It's impossible — it's irresponsible — to deny it.” Amrikan is replete with images and essays that illuminate this fusion of cuisine and culture, showcasing the links between food and identity. Khushbu Shah is a food writer and journalist who resides in Los Angeles, California. She was most recently the restaurant editor at Food & Wine magazine, where she crisscrossed the United States several times over on the hunt for the country's best new chefs. She is the youngest person and the first person of color to ever hold that title. You can also find her work in the New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, Eater, and more. Additionally, her writing has been featured in the Best American Food Writing anthologies, and she has made appearances on television shows like Ugly Delicious. Khushbu grew up in Michigan, where her immigrant parents raised her with a deep appreciation for spices and good fruit. This is her debut cookbook. J. Kenji López-Alt is a chef, parent, and New York Times best-selling author of The Food Lab, The Wok and Every Night Is Pizza Night. He is a wildly popular New York Times food columnist; cohost of The Recipe podcast with Deb Perelman; and host of Kenji's Cooking Show, which has more than a million subscribers on YouTube. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Buy the Companion Book Amrikan: 125 Recipes From the Indian Diaspora Book Larder

As our centennial series continues,Tyesha Maddox,  associate professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University and the author of A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024), talks about the history of Caribbean immigrants in New York, while listeners share their stories.

Nightlife speaks with three Australians of Indian heritage who have grown up here. They have dealt with the contrasts and the sense of being an outsider but also entitled to identify as Australians. 

Today Darin sits down with food writer and cookbook author, Khushbu Shah, whose new book AMRIKAN is a love letter to the culinary traditions of the Indian American Diaspora. We talk about how immigration shapes food cultures, how her parents adapted their pantry, and she shares some of the delicious recipes that you can find in the book. In the second half of the show, Anni Rossi joins as musical guest.  An American singer, violist, and keyboardist from Minnesota, she graduated from the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley and is notable for her unique style of playing the viola and singing, often at the same time.  Anni shares details surrounding her uniquely constructed instrument as well as her newest release due in the spring.As we head into summer, please consider supporting HRN. Your donations, whatever you can afford, are greatly appreciated.Snacky Tunes: Music is the Main Ingredient, Chefs and Their Music (Phaidon), is now on shelves at bookstores around the world. It features over eighty of the world's top chefs who share personal stories of how music has been an important, integral force in their lives. The chefs also give personal recipes and curated playlists too. It's an anthology of memories, meals and mixtapes. Pick up your copy by ordering directly from Phaidon, or by visiting your local independent bookstore. Visit our site, www.snackytunes.com for more info.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Snacky Tunes by becoming a member.Snacky Tunes is Powered by Simplecast.

Food writer Khushbu Shah reflects on how Bisquick and Cream of Wheat fit into the Indian American diaspora. Michelle T. King recounts the life of Fu Pei-mei, a culinary star who taught generations of Taiwanese women how to cook. Reporter Elena Kadvany explains the elimination of restaurant surcharges and the last ditch effort to keep them intact. Historian Xaq Frohlich unpeels nutrition labels and why they leave the onus of good health on consumers. Finally, what does a California ban on salmon mean for the livelihood of fishermen?

Jayant Bhandari is an investor, entrepreneur, writer & speaker. He is a contributing editor for the Liberty Magazine and he has written on political, economic and cultural issues for numerous publications. This is his fourth time on The Labyrinth. In this episode, we talk about the ongoing 2024 Indian national elections, lack of intelligence among Modi and his followers, perception of Indians in foreign countries, decay of Western civilization, East Asian values & culture, success of Lee Kuan Yew & Singapore, US elections, Israel-Palestine-Iran War and the future of India. Recorded April 14, 2024 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelabyrinth.podcast/ Podcaster: Pratham Padav | Telegram: Projectionist Guest: Jayant Bhandari | Website: https://jayantbhandari.com/ | YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JayantBhandari | Twitter: https://twitter.com/JayantBhandari5 Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:50 Indian Elections 4:50 Irrationality Of Modi & His Bhakts 9:18 Apathy Of The Indian Rich 11:30 Narayan Murthy & Wealth Inequality 16:28 Jayant's Views On Hinduism 23:06 Why Is Congress Failing? 25:45 Sexualization Of Society 29:14 Indian Diaspora & Brain Drain 32:47 Success Of East Asia 36:31 Thai Attitude & Reputation Of Indian Tourists 39:42 Brilliance Of Lee Kuan Yew & Singapore 43:52 Trump Vs Biden 45:12 Israel Vs Palestine 47:47 Why Are Gold Prices Increasing? 49:55 Will India Survive?

The National Library of Australia invites individuals with Indian heritage to contribute their stories and experiences to the national archive. - தேசிய நூலகம் நடத்தும் Indian Diaspora in Australia – “புலம்பெயர்ந்து ஆஸ்திரேலியாவில் வாழும் இந்தியர்கள்” என்ற திட்டம் குறித்த மேலதிக தரவுகளை, இந்தத் திட்டத்தின் செய்தித் தொடர்பாளர் Nikki MacKay-Sim, director curatorial and collection research அவர்களிடம் கேட்டறிந்து கொள்கிறார் குலசேகரம் சஞ்சயன்.

Upcoming Ram Mandir consecration on January 22 sparks diverse reactions among the Australian Indian Diaspora.

Ep.180 features KAVERI RAINA (b.1990, New Delhi, India). She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. Select solo and group exhibitions include: The Big Picture (2023) Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; A soft place to land (2023), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH; Deep! Down! Inside! (2023) Hales Gallery, New York, NY; Kaveri Raina and Coral Saucedo Lomelí: What Do You Remember About the Earth (2023), Lighthouse Works, NY; image as a burden, death as a womb (2022), Chapter NY, New York, NY; Heft (2022), PATRON, Chicago, IL; E/Merge: Art of the Indian Diaspora (2021), National Indo-American Museum, Lombard, IL; Partings, Swaying to the Moon (2020), PATRON, Chicago, IL; NO LACKS, ME AND MY SHADOW (2020), M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; A Space for Monsters (2021), Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson and Kaveri Raina (2020), Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH; Linger to Gaze (2019), Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy; Linger Still (2019), Assembly Room, New York, NY; Here or There (2019), Paolo Arao, Rata Projects, New York, NY; Sarah.Canright / Kaveri.Raina (2019), Permanent Collection/Co-Lab Projects, Austin, TX; spaceless (2019), Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Paint School (2019), Shandaken Projects, Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York, NY; garcia, raina, shore, tossin (2019) at Luhring Augustine, New York; Pleasure at a Distance (2018), Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA. Raina has received several fellowships and awards including the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, the Ox-bow Residency Award, and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Fellowship Award. Photo credit Terrance James Jr. Patron Gallery https://patrongallery.com/artist/kaveriraina Patron Gallery "Songs of Silence yet bluebirds hum" https://patrongallery.com/exhibition/413/songs-of-silence-yet-bluebirds-hum Patron Gallery "Heft" https://patrongallery.com/exhibition/323/heft Casey Kaplan Gallery https://caseykaplangallery.com/artists/kaveri-raina/ Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kaveri-raina-songs-of-silence-yet-bluebirds-hum MOCA Cleveland "A soft place to land" https://www.mocacleveland.org/a-soft-place-to-land Night Gallery "the big picture" https://www.nightgallery.ca/exhibitions/the-big-picture/press-release Chapter "image as burden, death as womb" https://chapter-ny.com/exhibitions/image-as-a-burden-death-as-a-womb/ Artforum Review https://www.artforum.com/events/kaveri-raina-2-250873/ Lighthouse works https://lighthouseworks.us/exhibitions/kaveri-raina-coral-saucedo-lomeli-what-do-you-remember-about-the-earth Office "The wistful edge of silence" https://officemagazine.net/wistful-edge-silence-kaveri-raina NewCIty https://art.newcity.com/2020/03/16/ambiguity-of-form-a-review-of-kaveri-raina-at-patron/ Maake Magazine https://www.maakemagazine.com/issue-14

The Sri Durga Temple in the western region of Melbourne observed the Dussehra festival, embracing the occasion with great enthusiasm. The event featured a vibrant array of multicultural performances, alongside engaging literary and cultural segments designed specifically for the younger generation keen on exploring the rich tapestry of Indian mythology and culture.

Ukraine war fatigue helps a pro-Putin politician to victory in Slovakia, will Europe step to fill the US gap in military aid to Kyiv? As Nagorno Karabakh prepares for dissolution, what role did Turkish drones play in Baku's victory? Also: women in Greenland demand compensation over a birth control scandal and as a major Dutch gas field closes, many residents say 'Good riddance.'

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's statement linking India to the assassination of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar has raised global concern, including in Australia. This SBS Hindi podcast explores the growing diplomatic conflict between India and Canada and its possible impact on Australia's growing ties with India. Amitabh Mattoo, former head of the Australia India Institute, emphasises the importance of Australia approaching this situation with caution due to its substantial Indian diaspora and their deep-seated interest in Indian political affairs.

Embark on an emotional journey with Baskar Sundaram in this reflective episode of Baachu's Story. As he prepares to celebrate Diwali with his mother after years of separation, Baskar invites us to reflect on the profound influence our parents have on our lives. Stirred by the profound words of Abraham Lincoln - "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother" - Baskar contemplates his own path from India to the UK, acknowledging the strong, guiding force of his mother's unwavering faith and support.In this special episode, Baskar proposes a heartwarming request to listeners who've been part of his journey - a story, a moment, or a memory that they've shared. These narratives will form an invaluable gift for his mother, a testament to her son's influence and achievements inspired by her love and sacrifices.Join Baskar in this personal episode, as he pays homage to the unwavering spirit of motherhood and the priceless impact it has had on his life. Don't miss this celebration of familial love, personal growth, and the bonds that truly make life worth living.Support the show

It started as a simple parade, a celebration of the Indian diaspora in the US in a middle-class suburb.

It started as a simple parade, a celebration of the Indian diaspora in the US in a middle-class suburb.

India is set to open a consulate in Brisbane, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Tuesday during an address at Sydney's Qudos Bank Arena. Indian community members in Queensland have praised the decision as the 'need of the hour'.

Just how authentic is the local affection for Modi?

Just how authentic is the local affection for Modi?

In Sydney's Harris Park, the streets are decked out in orange, white and green as members of the Indian community prepare to welcome Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As they prepare to see their favorite leader today, attendees share their excitement and expectations.

This week, A'ndre talks to Dr. Joyojeet Pal, an Indian politics expert and an Associate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan's School of Information, on all things Narendra Modi. They discuss Modi's unconventional rise to power and the controversies surrounding the BBC's documentary, which implicated Modi in the 2002 Gujarat Riots, which result in the deaths of 1,000, predominantly Muslim, civilians. Dr. Pal also highlights unclassified State Department documents, painting a picture of the U.S. Government's evolution in its stance on Modi -- from a Visa ban in the 2000s to the revocation of that ban before he became prime minister -- and the role that relevant U.S. political/policy figures and Indian Diaspora groups played in that timeline. They also discuss recent scandals involving Asia's once-richest-man, Gautam Adani, whose Adani Group recorded $120b in market value loss after the Hindenburg Group, an investment research firm, released a damning report alleging stock manipulation and fraud, amongst other allegations. Dr. Pal provides his prognosis on Indian politics, including how Rahul Gandhi, heir to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and current opposition leader, is attempting a political rebrand after two landslide losses to Modi in 2014 and 2019.

What do Irfaan Ali of Guyana & Chan Santokhi of Suriname have in common? Both their ancestors were from India, sent across the seven seas to work on British plantations as indentured labour 150 years ago. So what's the message that PM Modi wants to send out as they flanked him at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention over the weekend? Watch #GlobalPrint with ThePrint's Senior Consulting Editor Jyoti Malhotra to know more.

Episode 156 Notes and Links to Namrata Poddar's Work        On Episode 156 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Namrata Poddar, and the two discuss, among other things, Namrata's multilingual upbringing in Mumbai and abroad, her early reading, her early reading and writers who inspired her with their decolonial and other writing, her “living with her characters” for many years for her wonderful debut novel, how she would label/distinguish the novel, and salient themes of misogyny, home and its shifting definition, class division, and diaspora.        Namrata writes fiction and nonfiction, serves as Interviews Editor for Kweli, and teaches literature and writing at UCLA. Her work has appeared in several publications including Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Longreads, The Kenyon Review, and The Best Asian Short Stories. Her debut novel, Border Less, was a finalist for Feminist Press's Louise Meriwether Prize. Buy Border Less   Namrata Poddar's Website   2022 LA Times Article: “Namrata Poddar's debut novel traverses borders — and conventional storytelling”   February, 2022 LA Times Review: “Review: A novel set in L.A. and Mumbai aims to reinvent the South Asian immigrant novel” At about 7:10, Namrata discusses the title's significance and her positioning “borderless” as two words   At about 7:40, Pete shouts out an original usage of language in Namrata's book   At about 8:10, Namrata responds to Pete's questions about her relationship with languages and the written word in her childhood   At about 13:40, Pete asks Namrata about how her ancestral lands of Rajahstan and the Tar Desert   At about 15:30, Pete uses the famous Toni Morrison quote in asking Namrata about representation and its connection to her own book; Namrata expands upon her early assigned reading and the “divorce” between colonized readings and the English she heard in her daily life   At about 18:10, Namrata lists writers who inspired her in her younger days; she cites both writers with colonial and non-colonial foci, including her “first brush…with the world of literature” in America's Children by Rushdie   At about 25:35, The two discuss Frantz Fanon and him as part of the tradition/”legacy” that has inspired Namrata   At about 27:25, Namrata lists and describes some of the many countless writers who thrill and inspire her, including Natalie Diaz and Melissa Febos, and Imani Perry   At about 30:10, The two discuss Sandra Cisneros' skill and standout stories   At about 31:15, Namrata reflects on the title's myriad meanings for her book Border Less    At about 34:20, Pete notes the clever book structure and asks Namrata to talk about how she labels her book and why; she notes ideas of “fragments” coming from many non-Western traditions, and how her epigraph from Edouard Glisaant relates   At about 40:25, Pete wonders about the story 9/12 and talks about the alchemy of what makes it a great story/chapter; he asks Namrata what she thinks the story “accomplishes” and she connects the chapter to other parts of the book   At about 43:30, The two discuss the dynamics of the dynamic first story, and Pete   At about 44:50, The two discuss the “Ladies Special” chapter and Pete notes Mumbai serving as a character on its own, and Namrata discusses the myriad significance of som many parts of the story    At about 50:10, Pete notes some salient themes, including financial issues and class divisions, from the book, and Pete highlights      At about 55:00, The two discuss ideas of stability and independence, and Pete shares a simple but powerful quote from the book   At about 56:00, Namrata expands on the hyphens that mark those in the Indian Diaspora and differing views of, and experiences with, a return to India   At about 59:45, Pete discusses ideas of connectedness and ancestral ties    At about 1:00:30, Namrata outlines the paradox that is set up with families that are scattered “yet find family in each other,” as well as the evolving definition of “family”   At about 1:03:10, The two discuss the significance of the haveli that has been in Día's family for generations    At about 1:04:00, Namrata responds to Pete's questions about continuity in the book and writing a book that is a family saga that spreads out over many decades and multiple generations   At about 1:07:40, Namrata and Pete discuss Ricki, Día, and other strong female characters who buck the traditional gender roles and Ricki's father's nostalgic writing At about 1:10, Namrata gives her rationale for ending the book with a chapter that she uses    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. 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Whose 'jab is it anyways??!! The boys this week talk about Usama getting a prosthetic boner on a film set and the Iranian hijba protests!   FOLLOW US : @yourmangobae

Ashwini KP, the first Dalit woman from Asia to become special rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council, explains what she intends to do and why being anti-caste isn't being anti-Hindu

Ashwini KP, the first Dalit woman from Asia to become special rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council, explains what she intends to do and why being anti-caste isn't being anti-Hindu

In this week's episode: Usama's mom corners him about marriage, women self-banishing during their periods, the need to stay away from the BBC news when talking about India.

These days, the world of Indian politics and policy appears to be moving at warp speed—even by Indian standards. To make sense of all the latest developments out of India, this week Milan is joined by Grand Tamasha regulars—Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute and the Wall Street Journal, and Tanvi Madan of the Brookings Institution. The trio discusses three topics. First, they examine the latest drama coming out of the Indian National Congress and discuss the race to take over India's Grand Old Party. Second, Milan, Sadanand, and Tanvi discuss the key takeaways and controversies from External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar's lengthy visit to the United States. And finally, the group unpacks the creeping signs of religious polarization in the Indian diaspora, stretching from Canada to the United Kingdom and to the United States. Plus, the three share the best thing on India they've read in the past six months. Tanvi Madan, “China Has Lost India: How Beijing's Aggression Pushed New Delhi to the West,” Foreign Affairs, October 4, 2022.Sadanand Dhume, “Hindu Nationalism Threatens India's Rise as a Nation,” Wall Street Journal, June 10, 2022.Prashant Jha, “A story of friendship: The underlying theme of Jaishankar's Washington DC visit,” Hindustan Times, September 30, 2022.“Rearranging Marriage in Modern India (with Mansi Choksi),” Grand Tamasha, September 28, 2022.Jayita Sarkar, Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2022).

Don't try this at home! Or do! Are we teaching the kids well? Someone tries to Cuck Usama in Spain; a very special DM from a woman who leaves her white boyfriend for an arranged marriage. We rule. Please write us a review!

SBS Hindi spoke to some people who attended the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne's flag hoisting and IFFM Dance Competition at Federation Square about how Indian migrants can increase their contribution and influence in Australia.

In this episode we discuss the role caste plays both in South Asia as well as in diasporic communities in the West. Some suggest that caste does not exist outside India, while others insist it does and protections against caste basted discrimination are necessary. These protections bring up additional concerns regarding Western stereotypes of South Asian caste in the West, and the fear of increased discrimination against South Asians in the West if discussions of caste in the West persist.Links to articles and books discussed in this episode:Jeremiah, A 2020, Caste and Caste Based Sectarianism in India. in Caste and Caste Based Sectarianism, Urban Spaces and Sectarian Contestations. SEPAD , pp. 46-50. NPR News report - https://www.npr.org/2022/05/02/1095861447/some-south-asian-americans-believe-caste-based-prejudices-exist-in-the-u-sWilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. United States: THORNDIKE Press, 2021.Google caste discussion scrapped - https://qz.com/india/2172954/google-scrapped-a-talk-on-caste-bias-for-being-too-divisive/

India Policy Watch #1: What UP Tells UsInsights on burning policy issues in India — RSJIf there was more proof needed that Indian politics has changed forever, it came this week with the results of five state assembly elections. BJP won the big prize, UP, with a comfortable margin while AAP swept Punjab marking its presence beyond Delhi in a spectacular fashion. The question is what is this thing that has changed? Is this the usual hyperbolic overreading of events that we have come to associate with the media these days? Or have things changed in a more fundamental manner in Indian democracy? I read through much of the analysis that appeared in the print media to understand this. Something Has EndedThree themes emerged. One that focused on some kind of an end of the ‘old republic’. Shekhar Gupta writes of this in the Business Standard:“For 60 years since we became a republic in 1950, our politics was all structured around the Congress and its conception of a socialist, secular state. That epoch has faded fully. Now we are wading neck deep through a new, BJP/RSS/Hindu nationalism epoch. The preference of Hindu nationalism over Hindutva is consciously made. Religion has its oomph, but the pull of religiously defined new nationalism is enormously greater.Today, if all of BJP’s rivals in Uttar Pradesh made a spectacle of walking to the Kashi Vishwanath temple across the new corridor—which I quite like—the secular republic has been redefined. Everybody has fallen in line. Today, we have a new nationalism, a new secularism and increasingly a new socialism redefined as efficient, non-leaky welfarism.”The other theme was about some kind of an end to politics of identity, based on caste and other social formulations. As Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes in the Indian Express:“The BJP has transformed the nature of politics in ways to which the Opposition has no answer. The first is a commitment to a generative conception of politics. The sense that the BJP has a deep social base, especially amongst women and lower castes, and a spectacular geographic reach as Manipur has demonstrated, completely belies the identity determinism that has for so long characterised Indian politics. The project of now opposing any national party on the basis of a coalition of fragmented identities is dead.”Finally, there was the question of does economic performance matter in the face of ideology? Quoting Pratap Bhanu Mehta again:“There will be another time to discuss how much of Yogi’s triumph in UP has to do with governance and delivery. This is empirically a complicated matter. This is in no small part because what a regime gets credit for is as much a matter of prior trust as it is of facts. Certainly Yogi’s new welfarism, or crackdown on certain kinds of corrupt intermediaries may contribute to the BJP’s popularity. But the idea that all of that was enough to wipe out the effects of the Covid-19 devastation, unprecedented inflation, a dip in consumer spending and a real jobs crisis requires more explanation. Perhaps the angriest and the most devastated no longer feel politics is the conduit for solving their problems. Your protest will be expressed more as social pathology, not as political revolt.”At a macro level, these seem to be the conclusions to be drawn from BJP’s big win in UP - an epoch has ended with the dominance of a new nationalism as defined by the BJP; identity politics that emerged from the Mandal movement is dead; and, people care more for ideology plus welfarism than economic performance. Are these valid conclusions or is this the usual overanalysis of a single election outcome? Is there a simpler explanation for the win in UP? Let me take you back to one of the predictions I made at the start of the year about UP elections:“The BJP election machine will continue its winning run barring the odd defeats in Punjab and Goa. The big prize, UP, will be fought hard but BJP will win a safe majority. The bahujan vote of the depleted BSP will shift to it more than to SP and that will make all the difference.”The vote share numbers that are emerging seem to suggest that’s what has happened. We didn’t have the usual triangular contests this time around. That worked for the BJP because the bahujan viewed it with less suspicion than in the past and the alternative of going to the Yadav-dominated SP wasn’t too alluring for them. Maybe, it is mere electoral arithmetic at play than some grand narrative. It is difficult to conclude. However, I won’t deny there are fundamental issues about our republic we must contend with as we look at the politics around us now. Electoral arithmetic doesn’t come out of a social or political vacuum. So, I will pick up three faultlines that deserve attention for where our polity stands today.Representation And NationalismI will pick up the idea of representation in a democracy first. The democratic idea of sovereignty of people means there has to be a definition of what constitutes the ‘people’. And once you have defined the people, you then have to contend with the numerical advantage of various groups or identities within the people because democracy is a game of numbers. In India, the idea of a representational democracy took formal roots with the Morley-Minto Reforms of 1909 that introduced elections to legislative councils and allowed Indians to be elected to them. Muslims were granted separate electorates with seats reserved for them where only Muslims would be polled. This was to ensure a ‘fair share’ of representation of Muslims who would otherwise be underrepresented in elections where the Hindus would always be in a majority. This is a central conundrum in any democracy that has a permanent group that’s seen to be a majority by a permanent minority. If you follow the principles of equality and one person - one vote, it is likely the majority will always win the elections. How do you then safeguard the interests of minorities? One answer was a separate electorate that was suggested by the Morley-Minto Act. The other could be by giving a veto on key issues to the minorities that would make them more secure. But both these formulations go against the fundamental nature of democracy and, more importantly, risk majoritarian backlash. The greater the backlash, the harder the minority demand for security in the form of special power or concessions in a democracy. You get into a vicious cycle then. This problem of representation played out fully in the two decades leading up to 1947. This was the unsolvable question that was the basis for partition. However, partition might have solved this issue for Pakistan but the question remained open for India which still had about 20 per cent of the minority population. So our response was in the form of a Constitution that didn’t look back into the past for inspiration and stayed focused on the values of liberty, equality and fraternity. The hope was for a form of civic nationalism to emerge and for people to focus on their individual freedoms and mutual interdependence to power the nation into a new future. This was easier said than done. Because the minority can take solace in a liberal Constitution but then the question arises who will wield the power of administering it. If the majority administer it with the wrong intent, no amount of lofty ideals of the Constitution can assure the minority of their freedoms. This is what led to a finely balanced model of administration by the Congress after independence that, in some sense, gave the minority a veto on various issues. That this veto was abused by the leaders of the minorities and by the Congress is a separate issue. It led to the minorities being seen as a vote bank and continued to fester a sense of anger among the majority at this pampered treatment. A dominant Congress with strong leaders could manage these contradictions without precipitating things. This balance was shattered in the mid-80s with the Rajiv Gandhi government, that instead of containing these issues as was the political custom, tried to take advantage of them by riding the twin horses of Hindu and Muslim appeasement. The Ayodhya movement, the bogey of Muslim appeasement using Shah Bano case as an example, the vocal assertion of Hindu victimhood of the past and its desire for revival emerged from there. The Mandal movement that encouraged fragmented identities among the majority delayed the inevitable for some time. That project is now dead largely because its leadership has no credibility anymore, it has no focal point to rally people and the BJP has melded those fragmented identities into a larger Hindu identity. Muslim appeasement or the alleged veto of the past has been replaced by a complete shunting out from representative politics in most states where the BJP is in power. The UP win where the election was fought on the 80-20 plank and where less than 5 percent of minorities voted for the winning party bookends the cycle that began three decades back. This might appear to many like a defeat of appeasement politics and a win for equality as defined in the Constitution. It is decidedly not. A permanent minority stripped of representation will agitate and fight for it. History has shown this doesn’t go well for a nation. The horrors of our partition are but just one example of it.Cultural Nationalism And Appropriating HistoryThe other area of interest is culture and history that have always provided the fuel needed to drive nationalism. History is always contentious in a land as ancient and continuously inhabited as India. History isn’t only what’s written in the books by scholars. There is also a living memory of the past that gets passed down to generations. In the decades leading up to our independence, the question of how to integrate our history into the national movement was a tricky one. Our present as Indians under colonial rule then gave us a single identity but our past fragmented us on caste and religious lines in ways that were fundamental to our conception of self. This is what prompted the likes of Gandhi and Ambedkar to imagine the project of founding a modern India as an act of forgetting our past. To them, our past might have had glorious achievements but it was also violent, unequal and amoral. We could study to draw lessons from it but it had nothing to contribute to the imagination of a modern Indian state. So, let the past be. Let people figure out which past they want to read or imagine. Let there be competing narratives about it. But the state should be forward-looking and progressive. It should draw none of its legitimacy from the past. This was a good model to adopt; possibly, the only moral one given our history. But it had two problems. One, it ignored the living memory of people about their past completely. This memory that was repressed then found its expression in a more radical and uninformed view of our past that was kept alive and propagated by the likes of Sangh parivaar. Two, the Marxist historians used state sponsorship to purvey a version of history that served the values of the modern Indian state but in the process whitewashed all truths of our past that were inconvenient to this narrative. In fact, many other voices that questioned these versions were shut out. This was an ethical academic folly. But today that mistake seems worse. Instead of having a well researched and rigorous counter to the Marxist versions, we have competing views now that’s mere propaganda. That’s the price to pay for not letting legitimate contrarian views take roots. The versions of our history and culture that are spreading now through WhatsApp universities and other social media platforms not only counter the Marxian view, they also delegitimise the founding principles on which the modern Indian state was built. This is now an irreversible process. The UP election victory was preceded by elaborate ceremonies of laying the foundation of the Ram temple in Ayodhya and opening up of the new Kashi Vishwanath corridor. Alternative histories and versions now emerge every day with more dubious claims about our past that support the narrative of the current regime. The radical act of amnesia that marked our founding moment has been replaced by a vivid, technicolour Bollywood-ised version starring the likes of Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn. We have swung from one extreme to the other. Nothing good comes from reopening old wounds. As Ghalib once wrote:“jalā hai jism jahāñ dil bhī jal gayā hogā kuredte ho jo ab raakh justujū kyā hai” (We persist in digging up the past. No idea why.)Trading OffLastly, I agree with Pratap Bhanu Mehta that people no longer see politics as a conduit for solving their problems. I don’t know why he thinks this has happened. My view is this is the usual course of things in India. In the 75 years since our independence, we have always had a grand narrative that calls upon our people to make sacrifices for the greater good of our nation. In the Nehruvian years, it was about building a modern India unfettered by its past by letting the state become large and all-powerful. The people were supposed to kowtow to a prescriptive, omniscient state because we were building a new India. This was followed by the Indira era where the pretence of a new India was forgotten because there weren’t any resources left to build one. What was left was a hell where every citizen was asked to pay for the ineptitude of the state in the name of socialism. The two decades post 1991 were a kind of an exception where economic freedom and growth were being promised and the sacrifice being asked from people was to look beyond their historical baggage of identity. It is no surprise that this period saw maximum social mobility and internal migration. We are now on to a different kind of compact. The proposition of this regime today is this - we are doing the difficult job of reclaiming the soul of India that was crushed for over a thousand years by invaders of various hues. This awakening might need sacrifices in the short-term on economic performance. You have lived through this for 75 years. What’s another 25? The UP victory is a confirmation of this. Economic outperformance is hard work with no clear linkage to electoral benefits. Reviving a glorious past that’s largely mythical and promoting welfarism is much easier with better payoffs.Maybe I’m being overly pessimistic. It is possible that the broader Hindu identity project that’s on will meld all other castes and communities into a composite that’s more equal and less discriminating. Maybe the nationalism project will not be forever in need of an ‘other’ to fight and keep itself relevant. Instead of being a source of vicarious joy to the mediocre which it usually is, this brand of nationalism might inspire a generation to put itself in the service of the nation. Possible? Who knows? Maybe we will reconcile with our past once we have rewritten all our history in the way we think it happened. The permanent majority will then forever be rid of its sense of victimhood. It could happen. These are all in the realms of possibility. Maybe I should be hopeful.  But then I look at history. And it tells me not to bet against it. India Policy Watch #2: Irrational Fears and Homemade PotionsInsights on burning policy issues in India — Pranay KotasthaneConfirmation bias is a powerful cognitive bias. The tendency to search for information that confirms one’s own preconceptions is on full display in the technology and trade domains after the Russia-Ukraine war. For those who seek economic and technological self-sufficiency for India, this war has come at a right time to bolster their case for everything from data localisation, domestic social media platforms to SWIFT alternatives and de-dollarisation. The common refrain is: “see, this is what happens when you have trade and tech interdependence with the West. Imagine if the West were to use the same instruments against India in the future. Shouldn’t we decouple before they do this to us?”Without doubt, this narrative will find resonance amongst many policymakers and Indian citizens. But before they convert aatmanirbharta into a full-on quest for autarky, I have three counter-points to offer.First, the biggest lesson to draw from the Russia-Ukraine war is not that we need to become self-sufficient, but just that invading other countries comes at a humungous human cost to one’s own citizens. Nuclear-armed invaders might have immunity from conventional warfare by other nuclear-armed powers, but they will face a response in other domains—economic, technological, and sub-conventional. I also suspect there’s the availability heuristic at play here. Many Indians recall the economic sanctions against India after the Pokhran tests. They fear that the information age variant of those sanctions could be similar to what Russia is facing. That conclusion completely ignores the history of the last twenty years. The days of India-Pakistan hyphenation are long behind us. The West too needs a powerful India to counter China. We forget that for this reason, the same post-Pokhran sanctions were replaced by a civil nuclear deal within a short period of seven years. There’s also a category error in this comparison. Government-to-government sanctions against nuclear tests conducted on one’s soil are entirely different from the combined might of multi-State, market, and social sanctions that Russia’s invasions have invited. And so, since India has no designs to invade any other country (I sure hope so), we need not spend sleepless nights over similar sanctions.Second, the pursuit of tech self-sufficiency is itself a near impossible goal. Whatever the level of domestic alternatives we build, there will still be some levers left in the hands of other technologically advanced countries to throttle India’s progress. I had earlier written that the idea of high-tech national industries is anachronistic.That's because high-tech industries today rely on extensive cross-border movements of intermediate products, talent, and intellectual property. As R&D costs required to produce technological improvements have risen across sectors, erstwhile 'national' industries have been transformed into global supply chains. Instead of national champions making complete products independently, companies only specialise in specific parts of global supply chains.. Dependencies for intermediate goods and specialised equipment on other countries is inescapeable.The impact of global ecosystems is exactly what China is discovering now as the West begins to cut its access to leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing and devotes resources to prevent industrial espionage by China in high-tech collaborations. India shouldn’t be spending money, time, and resources on a delusionary goal. Third, India needs strong collaborations with the West precisely for increasing its aatmashakti. Indians are deeply embedded in the West’s technology sector and that’s a source of immense national strength. These connections offer tremendous opportunities for India’s growth. Sure, one can crib about brain drain but reversing that requires better living conditions and opportunities back home, and not severing ties with the West. The trajectory that China followed has a few lessons for us. The sustained movement of ideas, capital, goods and services between China the West over forty years helped China build its own strengths. Even on the strategic technologies front, there never has been a congruence of interests, values, and complementary strengths between the West and India, as it is now. The potential for joint development of key military technology has never been higher before. These three reasons highlight, once again, the minefield that is the aatmanirbharta narrative. PolicyWTF: I Failed my Unit TestThis section looks at egregious public policies. Policies that make you go: WTF, Did that really happen? - Pranay KotasthaneThankfully, the misfired unarmed missile that landed in Pakistan only led to escalations of the Twitter-kind. How a missile (possibly one that’s capable of carrying nukes) could land in the territory of a nuclear-armed adversary despite all the checks and safety procedures in place, boggles the mind.But the policyWTF I want to focus on is the press release by Ministry of Defence that was put out a full two days after the incident:“On 9 March 2022, in the course of a routine maintenance, a technical malfunction led to the accidental firing of a missile.The Government of India has taken a serious view and ordered a high-level Court of Enquiry.It is learnt that the missile landed in an area of Pakistan. While the incident is deeply regrettable, it is also a matter of relief that there has been no loss of life due to the accident.”That’s it. Not only did the message come after Pakistan had gone to town, it also has a “I failed my exam but It’s okay as it was just a unit test” feel to it. Unsurprisingly, Pakistan is now trying to internationalise the issue. This grave error deserved an unreserved apology to the people and government of Pakistan. It should have mentioned the steps the government has initiated to reassure not just Pakistan, but all important international stakeholders. Hopefully, this happens soon; it’s not too late.Advertisement: At Takshashila Institution, there are quite a few positions open across policy research, education, programme management, and outreach functions. If you are interested, or know someone who might be interested, all requirements are posted here.India Policy Watch #3: Mastering Diaspora EvacuationInsights on burning policy issues in India — Pranay KotasthaneIndian officials and diplomats are doing a commendable job in extricating Indians from conflict areas inside Ukraine. An Indian Express report gives an indication of what it takes for evacuation from conflict areas such as Sumy:The PM's one-to-one calls to the presidents of Ukraine and Russia apparently gave a green signal for the evacuation, after both of them told the PM that they did not have a problem with safe passage.This led to instructions to Indian officials in Kyiv and Moscow for creating a humanitarian corridor.External Affairs Minister, the Defence Ministry, and the two Indian ambassadors were also involved in activating local contacts. Apparently, the Red Cross in Geneva also helped in making arrangements.In Sumy, Indian officials and local embassy staff were stationed. Their local contacts were critical in getting the buses to Sumy. Since drivers couldn’t be found, the vehicles were driven by Ukrainian army personnel. Apparently, some private cars were also used.Local contacts also helped in arranging fuel and other logistics. Finally, 12 buses reached a point in Sumy, picked up Indians from a nearby hostel. The buses took the students to central Ukraine. They took the train to reach the western border of Ukraine, from where they entered Poland. Thereafter, aircraft of IndiGo, Indian Air Force, and Air India were used to bring them home.The LessonThe events described above give an indication of the kinds of challenges and capacity required for evacuations. While the efforts of Indian officers is commendable, the above narration also indicates the absence of a well laid out protocol for evacuating Indian citizens. Given India's large and increasing diaspora, and the world disorder we find ourselves in, the need for an evacuation from conflict zones is likely to increase. India needs to be better prepared.RecommendationsA Takshashila Institution 2016 Policy Brief Capacity Analysis for Evacuation of Indian Diaspora (written by my former colleague Guru Aiyar) had studied the capacity required for quick evacuation in detail. The study proposed a 'whole of government' approach to diaspora evacuation, which includes on-ground execution mechanisms such as:Creation of an Overseas Crisis Management Group(OCMG) under the NSA which will be responsible for synchronisation and control of evacuation operations at the apex level. It will coordinate with the military, bureaucracy, civil aviation, railways, and diplomatic missions.The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the OCMG must have databases of logistics and transportation companies at foreign locations for ready use by Indian Missions abroad.Diplomatic push to set up overseas Overseas Coordination Points (OCPs) - airfields, ports, bus assembly areas, advanced landing grounds (ALGs) identified in advance.Maintain good diplomatic relations with countries where Overseas Coordination Points (OCPs) have been set up. For example, Djibouti becomes very important in West Asia for diaspora security.Wet lease of commercial ships & aircraft from friendly countries.For return to India, it is much cheaper to utilise civil carriers compared to Air Force or Air India.Include emergency clause in carrier licensing with commercial airlines and shipping companies to ensure: availability of aircraft with crew during emergencies, a compensation structure, and an Emergency Coordinator from all transport companies, airlines, shipping and railways with a lateral reporting channel to the OCMG.Going AheadWith Air India no longer a government company, it would be good for the government to include an emergency clause in carrier licensing now for all the private players. More importantly, India's diaspora evacuation must be better planned and executed instead of relying on the brilliance of individual officers in conflict situations where a lot of variables are not in control. Read MoreCapacity Analysis for Evacuation of Indian Diaspora, Takshashila Policy Brief by Guru Aiyar, August 2016Challenges for Indian Diaspora Evacuation, Takshashila Discussion SlideDoc, Guru Aiyar and Nitin PaiHomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters[Article] If there’s one article you want to read on the pension tension that prompted Rajasthan and Chattisgarh governments to announce a roll back of the pension reform, read Rajiv Mehrishi and Renuka Sane.[Note] A compilation of analyses on India-Russia relations.[Note] A compilation of studies and articles in search of answers to one question: Why have Feminist Political Parties not been electorally successful?[Podcast] In the next Puliyabaazi, Avani Kapur discusses public finance and fiscal decentralisation in India. Do listen. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit publicpolicy.substack.com

In this episode of The Brand Called You, we are learning about the large percentage of Indian diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America. Our guest for today, Mr. Adjiedj Bakas, is also an Indo-Caribbean and will help us understand more about his community in the Caribbean. By profession, Adjiedj is a Trend Watcher, author, TV personality and speaker. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tbcy/support

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary interviews M.R. Rangaswami. About GSD Venture Studios: We travel the world investing in resilient teams bold enough to #GoGlobal. For too long self-motivated entrepreneurs have navigated the minefield of challenges to launching a global company with very little support. The last thing you should bet on in this situation is an unproven team that you don't trust. GSD Venture Studios travels to every corner of the globe inviting resilient teams to establish partnerships that ensure organizations grow the right way, without games or gimmicks. Unlike traditional investors, we take senior operational (often co-founder) roles in these companies, capitalizing on our trusted reputation, experiences, and network to drive explosive growth. More information can be found at: https://www.gsdvs.com/post/interview-with-derek-everything-you-need-to-know-about-gsd About Gary Fowler: Gary has 30 years of operational, marketing, sales, and executive leadership experience including a $1.35 billion dollar exit and a successful Nasdaq IPO. He has founded 15 companies: DY Investments, Yva.ai, GVA LaunchGurus Venture Fund, GSD Venture Studios, Broadiant, etc. Under his leadership, Yva.ai was named one of the Top 10 AI HR Tech companies globally. Gary was recently named one of the top 10 Most Influential AI Executives to Watch in 2020. He is a writer at Forbes Magazine and published over 60 articles on AI and Technology over the last year. More information can be found at: https://www.gsdvs.com/post/meet-gary-fowler

In this episdoe, just back from the New England Crime Bake, Hannah and Sam discuss the mysteries they're reading (not "sexy mysteries"), Sam's dip into "The Lincoln Highway," the new Louise Erdrich (Hannah's first!), romance novels set in the Indian Diaspora (with a segue into "Never Have I Ever"), the new Ann Patchett, and then a bunch of stuff about why there aren't any big Thanksgiving books or really any cultural artifacts.  Oh, and Ursula Le Guin's book is called "No Time to Spare" and Louise Erdich's is called "Future Home of the Living God" (which Sam was not even close to getting right in real time). 

ಲೇಖಕ ಚಿದಾನಂದ ರಾಜಘಟ್ಟ ಅಮೆರಿಕಾದ ಉಪಾಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ US VP ಕಮಲಾ ಹ್ಯಾರಿಸ್ ಅವರ ಪಯಣ, ಜೀವನಕಥೆ ಮತ್ತು ಆರೋಹಣದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ.Author and DC-based journalist Chidanand Rajghatta talks about the phenomenal rise of US Veep Kamala Harris and discusses his latest book on her journey.ಕಮಲಾ ಹ್ಯಾರಿಸ್ ಅವರು 2020ನಲ್ಲಿ ಜೋ ಬೈದೇನ್ ಅವರ ಉಮೇದುವಾರಿಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಉಪಾಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ ಸ್ಥಾನಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ನಡಿಸಿ ಗೆದ್ದರು. ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಕಮಲಾ ರವರು ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲೂ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧರಾದರು. ಕಮಲಾ ರವರನ್ನ ಭಾರತೀಯರು ಅಂದರೆ ಸರಿ ನ? ಅವರ ಜೀವನಕಥೆ ಏನು, ಮತ್ತು ರಾಜಕೀಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಗೆ ಮುಂದುಬಂದರು? ಅವರ ಉಪಾಧ್ಯಕ್ಷರ ಕಾಲ ಹೇಗಿದೆ? ಲೇಖಹ, ಸಂಪಾದಕ ಮತ್ತು ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರಾದ ಚಿದಾನಂದ ರಾಜಘಟ್ಟ ರವರು ಪವನ್ ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ್ ರವರ ಜೊತೆ ತಲೆ-ಹರಟೆ ಪಾಡ್ಕಾಸ್ಟಿನ 117ನೇ ಕಂತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಇದೆಲ್ಲರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ.ಚಿದಾನಂದ ರಾಜಘಟ್ಟ ರವರು ಟೈಮ್ಸ್ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾ ನಲ್ಲಿ ವಿದೇಶಿ ಸಂಪಾದಕರು. ಅವರು 25 ವರ್ಷಗಳಿಂದ ವಾಷಿಂಗ್ಟನ್ ಡಿ.ಸಿ. ನಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸವಿದ್ದರೂ ಅವರು ಮೂಲತಃ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನವರೇ ಆಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಅವರ ಮೂರನೇ ಪುಸ್ತಕ 'ಕಮಲಾ ಹ್ಯಾರಿಸ್: ಫೆನೊಮೆನಲ್ ವುಮನ್' 2021 ನವಂಬರಲ್ಲಿ ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್‌ನಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. (ಹಾರ್ಪರ್ ಕಾಲಿನ್ಸ್ ಪ್ರಕಾಶನ) ಪುಸ್ತಕದ ಲಿಂಕ್: https://amzn.to/3GJSQcM2020ನಲ್ಲಿ ತಲೆ-ಹರಟೆಯ 66ನೇ ಕಂತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಚಿದಾನಂದವರು 'ಅಮೇರಿಕಾದ ಕನಸು' ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದ್ದರು.Kamala Harris became a household name in India after her nomination and victory as the Vice-President of the United States of America, alongside President Joe Biden. From WhatsApp messages to newspaper articles to TV programmes, Kamala was celebrated for her Indian heritage and ‘Indianness'. How should one truly think about Kamala Harris and her extraordinary achievements? How does the US Vice-President think about her own identity, and her politics?Author, foreign editor and journalist Chidanand Rajghatta returns to the Thale-Harate Kannada Podcast to talk about how Kamala Harris might be the most consequential and powerful US Veep till date. On Episode 117, Chidanand talks to host Pavan Srinath and shares the circumstances that shaped Kamala's formative years, talks about the pioneering woman that her mother Shyamala Gopalan was, and gives us various glimpses into one of the most important political figures of today. Chidanand also elaborates on Kamala's public rise in the era of Donald Trump, extensive bigotry, xenophobia, and white supremacy.Chidanand Rajghatta is the author of a new book, ‘Kamala Harris: Phenomenal Woman' (Harper Collins). Rajghatta is foreign editor and bureau chief of the Times of India, and is one of the longest serving foreign correspondents in Washington, DC. This is his third book, after ‘The Horse That Flew: How India's Silicon Gurus Spread their Wings', and ‘Illiberal India: Gauri Lankesh and the Age of Unreason'. You can buy his new book here: https://amzn.to/3GJSQcMChidanand was previously on Episode 66 of Thale-Harate, talking about the promise of ‘The American Dream' and what it has meant to Indians and Kannadigas over the years.Related Links:Chidanand Rajghatta on Twitter @chidu77. Chidanand Rajghatta's blogs and articles on Times of India.Excerpt of Kamala Harris: Phenomenal Woman in ThePrint.Suggested Listening:ಅಮೆರಿಕಾದ ಕನಸು. The American Dream.ಅಮೆರಿಕಾ! ಅಮೆರಿಕಾ!! Kannada in the USA with Ramaprasad KV.A Pandemic and American Politics [English episode with Chidanand]Chidanand discussing his new book on ThePrint [English video]ಫಾಲೋ ಮಾಡಿ. Follow the Thalé-Haraté Kannada Podcast @haratepod. Facebook: https://facebook.com/HaratePod/ , Twitter: https://twitter.com/HaratePod/ and Instagram: https://instagram.com/haratepod/ .ಈಮೇಲ್ ಕಳಿಸಿ, send us an email at haratepod@gmail.com or send a tweet and tell us what you think of the show!The Thale-Harate Kannada Podcast is made possible thanks to the support of The Takshashila Institution and IPSMF, the Independent Public-Spirited Media Foundation.You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the new and improved IVM Podcast App on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios and check out our website at https://ivmpodcasts.com/ .You can also listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Gaana, Amazon Music Podcasts, JioSaavn, Castbox, or any other podcast app. We also have some video episodes up on YouTube! ಬನ್ನಿ ಕೇಳಿ!

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In this latest news from India in Hindi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves for Rome to attend the G20 summit; Indian defence minister says India is a peace-loving country but always ready to face challenges; Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, may walk out of jail.

#PGurusPrimeTime Prof R Vaidyanathan will be talking about Leveraging Global Indian Diaspora for India's growth. From Auckland to Alabama, NRIs are spread all over the world. How can India help them to help themselves? Followed by Q&A #AskRV

We launch a new series, looking at migration out of India - indentured labour & Indians in East Africa Shownotes Chinmay Tumbe's, India Moving - the book that inspired this series | Charles Darwin in Mauritius (Article) | The Last King of Scotland (Hotstar) | Documentary - Asian Expulsion (Youtube)

Professor Pankaj Sah has a special interest in researching the amygdala and the possibility of treating PTSD to remove the fear and anxiety that come with it

Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College. She is also in independent practice in Cambridge, MA. Her scholarship focuses on immigration, trauma, race, cultural competence, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She has served as the chair of the Multicultural Concerns Committee in American Psychological Association Division 39 (Psychoanalysis), and as a member of the APA Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs, the APA Presidential Task Force on Immigration, and the APA Task Force on Revising the Multicultural Guidelines. She is currently a Member-at-Large on the Board of Directors of APA Division 39, and a member of the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy, published by APA (American Psychological Association) Books in 2016. https://www.nwaps.org/events/usha-tummala-narra-phdhttps://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/lynch-school/faculty-research/faculty-directory/usha-tummala-narra.htmlhttps://theculturetrip.com/asia/india/articles/the-dark-history-behind-sati-a-banned-funeral-custom-in-india/The Sati or suttee[note 1] was a historical practice found chiefly among Hindus in the northern and pre-modern regions of South Asia, in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband funeral pyreDowry the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage cultures in which marriage rarely occurs without dowry or bride-pricehttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dowryCaste SystemThe rigid Hindu system of hereditary social distinctions based on castes.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35650616ColorismPrejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group.

Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College. She is also in independent practice in Cambridge, MA. Her scholarship focuses on immigration, trauma, race, cultural competence, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She has served as the chair of the Multicultural Concerns Committee in American Psychological Association Division 39 (Psychoanalysis), and as a member of the APA Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs, the APA Presidential Task Force on Immigration, and the APA Task Force on Revising the Multicultural Guidelines. She is currently a Member-at-Large on the Board of Directors of APA Division 39, and a member of the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy, published by APA (American Psychological Association) Books in 2016. https://www.nwaps.org/events/usha-tummala-narra-phdhttps://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/lynch-school/faculty-research/faculty-directory/usha-tummala-narra.htmlhttps://theculturetrip.com/asia/india/articles/the-dark-history-behind-sati-a-banned-funeral-custom-in-india/The Sati or suttee[note 1] was a historical practice found chiefly among Hindus in the northern and pre-modern regions of South Asia, in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband funeral pyreDowrythe money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage cultures in which marriage rarely occurs without dowry or bride-pricehttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dowryCaste SystemThe rigid Hindu system of hereditary social distinctions based on castes.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35650616ColorismPrejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group.