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India vs. Indiana: “In 2003, the US state of Indiana put out to tender a contract to upgrade the state’s computer systems that process unemployment claims. Tata America International, which is the US-based subsidiary of India’s Tata Consultancy Services, bid $15.2m for the contract - $8.1m lower than did its closest rivals, the New York-based companies Deloitte Consulting and Accenture Ltd. In other words, an Indian consulting firm won the contract to upgrade the unemployment department of the state of Indiana. You couldn’t make this up: Indiana was outsourcing the very department that would cushion the people of Indiana from the effects of outsourcing.” From Tom Friedman’s The World is Flat.
Growing Nuclear Club: A look at how India can offer some lessons on non-proliferation in a new nuclear age.
A review of India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy.
A review of Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy is Transforming the World.
From The New Yorker, James Surowiecki on India’s skills famine.
From Outlook India, a review of Disappearing Daughters: The Tragedy of Female Foeticide.
A review of The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence and India’s Future by Martha Nussbaum; Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy is Transforming America and the World; and Inhaling the Mahatma.
A review of The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857.
Change is constantly perceptible in Bombay. But what is change, if it means you are no longer necessary.
Quebec & Kashmir: India must heed the lessons from the spirit and skills that underlay Canada’s efforts at nation-building.
Living the good life in booming India, one can almost forget social inequality, the conflict with Pakistan, and fundamentalist violence.
The Great Game revisited: India and Pakistan are playing out their rivalries in Afghanistan.
India Inc.: A Bollypolitan elite is the newest creative class to kick into New York with art, fashion, literature.
There is a serious problem with this week’s detailed negotiations on the nuclear cooperation agreement between India and the United States.
Silicon Valley’s immigration problem: If you could choose between starting a high-tech career in India or the U.S., which would you pick?
Southeast Asia, long known as an intermediate zone between the ancient civilisations of China and India, is also an area that scholars have long portrayed as historically subject to influences coming from its west, beginning with Indianisation, then islamisation and finally westernisation. But it would be far more insightful to treat Southeast Asia and southern China as part of one region, in the same way that Fernand Braudel approached the history of the Mediterranean.
Mumbai is at the heart of India’s growing economic power. But it is also the place where many of the subcontinent’s paradoxes can be found in close quarters.
India’s democratic experiment, with all its flaws, and the often-dismissed version of Nehru-Gandhian secularism are things Indians can be proud of. But these are seldom the things that Indians are asked to be proud of.
From The Hindu, India’s relations with other countries and security issues are of never-ending interest to T.V. Paul.
Why is Russia so nasty, and India so nice? Russia is spoiled by oil; India blessed with less.
Eyes Off the Prize: As Iraq dominates U.S. attention, China, India and Iran are emerging as the next world powers.
From The Hindu, a review of Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, his People and an Empire.
In Good Faith : Here’s an Indian view of secularism.
Americans have a love affair with India, seduced by a colorful culture, one of the world’s great cuisines, and the sense that these two great democracies are a lot alike. In reality, however, the two countries have very little in common, and a lot that could pull them apart.
From across the shores: The Indian diaspora constitutes a significant economic, social and cultural force. What are their feelings for this country?
From Economic and Political Weekly, secularism without secularisation: What explains the failure of secularism in the US and India? Why have secular constitutions proved to be incapable of preventing the growing “religionisation” of the state and the public sphere?
An elephant can run very fast: An article on India’s boundless ambitions.
From India, prosperity creates paradox: Many children are fat, even more are famished.
From Sign and Sight, farewell to spice and curry: Claudia Kramatschek introduces a new generation of Indian writers, a far cry from the senior cultural ambassadors of yesteryear
Local Experts
Milind Thakar: University of Indianapolis
Jyotika Saksena: University of Indianapolis
Sumit Ganguly: Indiana University
Organizations in Indiana
Indiana University India Studies Program
Discovering why India fits well within Indiana’s global economy
Books, Recent & Classic
Edward Luce, In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (excerpt) (review) (review) (review) (review) (review)
Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games
Edna Fernandes, Holy Warriors: A Journey into the Heart of Indian Fundamentalism
Mira Kamdar, Planet India: How the Fastest- Growing Democracy Is Transforming America and the World
Gurcharan Das, India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
Stephen Philip Cohen, India: Emerging Power
Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali: A Collection of Indian Poems by the Nobel Laureate
V. S. Naipaul, India: A Million Mutinies Now
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