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Emmy-nominated director striking it big in Hollywood

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Transforming veg food at Moglu

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Munaf Kapadia:

The ex-Googler bringing Bohri cuisine to the world

Putting the world in her lens:

Shweta Gulati

Preet Chandi:

Antarctic triple trekker

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Manjari Makijany:

Emmy-nominated director striking it big in Hollywood

Dr Kiran Narayan and Ankita Sree:

Transforming veg food at Moglu

Curl trouble?

Anshita Mehtrota has the answer

How Ujjal Dosanjh made it to the upper echelons of Canadian politics

Former Google analyst:

Now CEO of The Bohri Kitchen

Putting the world in her lens:

Shweta Gulati

Preet Chandi:

Antarctic triple trekker

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Global Indian | Good Reads

 Top reads curated from the internet 

#1India's Diwali tourism boom
UNESCO adds Deepavali to Global Intangible Heritage List: ‘A proud moment for Bharat’
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#2Earthlore band
Songs of the Forest
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#3Modi and Putin
India-Russia agreements: What do they mean for the Indian economy? Can they mitigate US tariff pain?
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#4indians abroad
India beats China in student ‘export’
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#5Voting
Macaulay racist but his English push gave us passport to mobility
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#6COP 30
COP30 shows US ‘free rider’ issue – and a need to punish green non-compliance
Diwali tourism boom in India

UNESCO adds Deepavali to Global Intangible Heritage List: ‘A proud moment for Bharat’

The article first appeared in  Money Control on December 10, 2025.

UNESCO announced the development publicly, posting the update with the message, “New inscription on the Intangible Heritage List: Deepavali, India. Congratulations.” The confirmation prompted extensive responses on X, where many users characterised the moment as a significant acknowledgement of India’s cultural traditions...

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Earthlore band

Songs of the Forest

The article first appeared in The Hindu on December 7, 2025.

On a November evening, at Nisarga Art Hub in Angamaly, Kerala, as a bunch of indigenous musicians from Wayanad and Coorg sang of the forest, of people’s struggles, in their native tongue, the audience joined in, clapping hands and tapping feet. That day, the newly formed Earthlore band made their stage debut...
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Putin and Modi

India-Russia agreements: What do they mean for the Indian economy? Can they mitigate US tariff pain?

The article first appeared in Mint on December 6, 2025.

India’s relationship with Russia crossed a new milestone as both countries agreed to deepen and expand their trade ties beyond oil and defence. Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Delhi for two days, December 4 and 5, for the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit. It was the first official trip of the Russian President to New Delhi since the Russia-Ukraine war began in February 2022.

India and Russia signed several key agreements, including trade, energy and technology, on Friday, December 5, that are expected to have a significant medium to long-term impact on the Indian economy. Both countries have agreed to increase their trade to $100 billion by the end of the decade...
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India beats China in student ‘export’

The article first appeared in Deccan Chronicle on November 28, 2025.

India has overtaken China as the top source market for international students in 2024. For every 1 international student coming to India, 19 new students go abroad, highlighting the need for balanced and strategic approach towards internationalisation of higher education, finds Niti Aayog.
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Voting

Macaulay racist but his English push gave us passport to mobility

The article first appeared in The Times of India on November 22, 2025.

While its motives were partly imperial, the British Raj helped resurrect India’s heritage and history. More importantly, they brought elections to India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently critiqued the legacy of Thomas Babington Macaulay, the 19th century-administrator who sought to create “a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect”. The RSS, too, has long claimed that “Macaulay’s children” imbibed a “colonial mindset”, including false British notions of Indian inferiority. The right-wing views this English-speaking elite as ‘cultural traitors’ from whom it is now rescuing India. Yet it was Macaulay who instituted English education in India, which eventually created Indians in top posts in the civil service, armed forces, and judiciary, and Nobel Prize winners such as Rabindranath Tagore and CV Raman.
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COP 30

COP30 shows US ‘free rider’ issue – and a need to punish green non-compliance

The article first appeared in The Times of India on November 23, 2025. Andreza Aruska De Souza, Director of Kings Brazil Institute of Kings College London discussed being at at COP 30. She said: 'This is the tragedy of the commons’. We all benefit from a clean environment and less global warming but there are ‘free riders’... Read more on The  Times of India 

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Global Indian | World in Numbers

Statistically speaking

$35 Billion

The amount that e-commerce giant Amazon plans to invest in India by 2030 across its businesses with a focus on AI-driven digitisation, export growth and job creation. Its twice that of Microsoft's and close to 2.3 times that of Google's $15 billion plan.

30 Day

Group tourist and e-tourist visas for Russian citizens have been announced by India in a new push to boost tourism and strategic ties with Russia.

16 Agreements

Were signed between India and Russia during President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit, covering defence, trade, the economy, healthcare, academics, as well as culture and media.

163 Percent

Surge from pre-pandemic levels was recorded in 2024, with an estimated 1.33 million Indians heading abroad to study. The top destinations included the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, South Korea and Spain.

$100 Billion

The target that India and Russia have set in bilateral trade by 2030. Key areas for increasing trade include expanding Indian exports of engineering products, pharmaceuticals, and food products to Russia.

28.5 Percent

Decline in India’s exports to the United States between May and October 2025, plunging from USD 8.83 billion to USD 6.31 billion, according to the think-tank Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI).

Global Indian | Did You Know? 

Fun facts about India and Global Indians

India’s negotiations for the trade deal with the United States will now be led by Darpan Jain as the chief negotiator. He is a 2001-batch IAS officer of the Karnataka cadre currently serving as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

Under the Make in India push, Russia has reaffirmed its commitment to India’s nuclear programme, with President Putin highlighting ongoing collaboration at the Kudankulam Nuclear Plant and the expansion of this key strategic project.

The Trump administration has tightened H-1B checks, asking consular officers to skim applicants’ résumés and LinkedIn profiles for any work tied to “censorship” including content moderation, fact-checking, misinformation or online safety roles.

For every one international student who chooses India, 19 Indian students leave to study abroad — a stark imbalance highlighted in recent NITI Aayog findings.

A bust of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar has been unveiled at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Constitution of India.

Indian citizens represented the largest group of non-European Union long-term migrants entering and exiting the UK in the year ending June 2025, as per official data released by the U.K. Office of National Statistics.

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