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Please read "The Other One Percent" by Chakravorty, Sanjoy; Kapur, Devesh; Singh, Nirvikar. It explains that the vast majority of Indians who migrate to the United States are from privileged backgrounds in terms of caste, class and education. They have gone through “a triple selection” process...

Some Americans saw big gains in wealth during the pandemic. Here's why. - CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-income-wealth-surged-pandemic-federal-reserve/ The racial group with the highest median wealth are Asian American households, with about $536,000 in assets. The Fed found...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/10/global-hunger-index-2023-indias-child.html India's child-wasting rate of 18.7% is the highest in the world, according to the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2023 released recently. The South Asian country’s child wasting rate is higher than that of war-torn...

Rogue nation - Newspaper - DAWN.COM https://www.dawn.com/news/1781292 Indian media have reported that the slain man, Mohammad Shahid Latif, was suspected by New Delhi of having facilitated the attack on an Indian Air Force base in Pathankot in 2016. However, there seems to be little...

As India's rank falls to 111, here's everything about Global Hunger Index https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/as-india-s-rank-falls-to-111-here-s-everything-about-global-hunger-index-123101300136_1.html India's ranking in the Global Hunger Index 2023 fell to 111 out of 125...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/10/us-census-update-pakistani-americans.html The average annual household earnings of Pakistani-Americans are $149,178, according to the latest update issued by the United States Census Bureau for 2022. The update estimates the median income of 132,958...

Tucker Carlson Slams Neocon Warmongers Nikki Haley, Dan Crenshaw and Lindsey Graham Over Unhinged Israel Policy - Big League Politics https://bigleaguepolitics.com/tucker-carlson-slams-neocon-warmongers-nikki-haley-dan-crenshaw-and-lindsey-graham-over-unhinged-israel-policy/ Former Fox News...

Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor Anecdotally, from my experience, this is a relatively new thing: The most bloodthirsty, genocidal comments in the wake of Hamas's awful rampage that I'm seeing here are all coming from right-wing, pro-BJP Indians...

Please don't compare the situation in Pakistan with what the Palestinians and Kashmiris are suffering under brutal military occupation.

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/10/modi-and-netanyahu-two-sides-of-same.html Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently tweeted that he is "shocked by the news of terrorist attacks in Israel", adding that "We stand in solidarity with Israel at this difficult hour". This tweet was...

As of today, Wikipedia lists 39 professors of Pakistani-origin and 171 professors of Indian-origin teaching at US universities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_academics_of_Indian_descent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_academics_of_Pakistani_descent

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/10/pakistani-americans-rising-strength-in.html Recent appointment of Karachi-born Irfan Siddiqui as Chairman of the Physics Department at the University of California at Berkeley highlights the growing numbers of Pakistani-Americans in the top ranks of the...

Top Chinese Scientist Questions India’s Claim to Reaching Moon’s South Pole | Time https://time.com/6318208/chinese-scientist-questions-india-moon-landing-south-pole/ Ouyang Ziyuan, lauded as the father of China’s lunar exploration program, told the Chinese-language Science Times newspaper...

From Google Gen AI: China's top scientist, Ouyang Ziyuan, has disputed India's claim that its Chandrayaan-3 rover landed near the moon's south pole. Ziyuan says the landing site was 619 kilometers away from the polar region. He claims the landing spot's coordinates are too far away to count...

New Delhi: A study by the World Bank has concluded that nearly 80% of people who slipped into poverty in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic hailed from India. Out of 7 crore people globally who became poor that year due to economic losses caused by the pandemic, Indians accounted for 5.6 crore...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/09/wb-poverty-update-india-is-biggest.html At the $3.65 poverty line, India accounts for 40% of the slight upward revision of the global poverty rate from 23.6% to 24.1%, according to the World Bank September 2023 Global Poverty Update. It is the same...

Sadanand Dhume @dhume India’s per capita income is less than 1/5th of China’s, and Beijing is busy unilaterally grabbing chunks of territory that India claims. Yet, somehow, in the Indian imagination the West needs India more than India needs the West...

Biden raised issue of Canadian Sikh's murder with Modi at G20, Financial Times reports https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-raised-issue-canadian-sikhs-murder-with-modi-g20-ft-2023-09-22/ Sept 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and other leaders expressed concern to Indian Prime Minister...

Ashok Swain @ashoswai India stops processing visa for Canadians! In 2022, 80000 Canadians (mostly Indian origin) visited India as tourists. On the other hand, 320,000 Indian students went Canada to study, 118,000 Indians permanently migrated and 60,000 Indians became Canadian citizens in 2022...

The Killing in Canada Shows What India Has Become - The Atlantic The government in New Delhi may well be the sort that will do anything to silence dissent. By Daniel Block https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/09/canada-nijjar-killing-india-trudeau-sikh/675383/ On...