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Interview with Dr. Arvind Panagariya
Recently, Desh-Videsh had the opportunity to interview Dr. Arvind Panagariya. Learn more about the internationally famed economist below. As I understand, PM Modi ji hand-picked you as a Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog. Can you share with our readers how that came about? My acquaintance …
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Seema Verma’s Medicare Plan for Cap on Insulin Bills for Senior Citizen Earns Her Thanks from Trump
Seema Verma heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and is a health policy consultant. She evolved a Medicare plan for seniors to cap their insulin bills at US$ 35 per month. This came in the wake of her being appointed a key member …
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For the People, By the People: Democracy in the US and India
By Alyssa Ayres India is the world’s largest democracy. However, despite its shared political system with the United States, India’s approach to human rights and foreign policy differs greatly from its Western counterparts. The following excerpt from Our Time Has Come: How India is Making …
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Don’t Lecture India: Look at Your Own Record
By Maria Wirth Europeans have a horrifying record regarding human rights violations. Germany is well known for an unprecedented, systematic holocaust of Jews and gypsies right in the middle of Europe only 80 years ago. Yet Britain, France, Portugal and others were as brutal with …
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Trump’s Historic Visit to India
President Trump’s historic visit to India on February 24, 2020, was an important step towards the partnership between the world’s largest and oldest democracies of the world. President Trump was the sixth United States President to travel to India, and he was the first to …
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List of Indian Americans and Indians who have received a Nobel prize
The following are the Nobel laureates who were Indian citizens at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize. Born in India The following Nobel laureates were born as Indian citizens but were citizens of another country when they were awarded the prize.
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Additional information about Abhijit Banerjee and his wife, Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, MIT economists whose work has helped transform antipoverty research and relief efforts, have been named co-winners of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, along with another co-winner, Harvard University economist Michael Kremer. “We …
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Indian Americans: A Rising Political Force in the US
When United States President Trump decided to share a stage with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Houston, Texas, in September 2019 in front of a crowd of over 50,000 Indian Americans, the political power held by Indian Americans as well as the community’s influence …
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Indian Americans Shine in Spheres other than IT and Spelling Bees
There was a time when the world was obsessed with how Indian Americans reigned in spelling bee contests and across the IT sector. Some of the best minds running IT giants are Indian American business people. Names such as Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft; Sundar …
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Ekal Vidyalaya School serves 35 kids and costs $365 a year. Let us eradicate illiteracy in India.
Over the past several years, We have been involved with and supported Ekal Vidyalaya. We are strong believers in supporting non profit organizations that help children’s education in India. We have been sponsoring Ekal Vidyalaya Schools every year now for over 15 years. Each Ekal …
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