Mira Kamdar

Senior Fellow at World Policy Institute; Associate Fellow the Asia Society; Author Planet India

Mira Kamdar appears in the following:

The Problem with Teaching Vulnerable Populations to Be Invisible

Tuesday, January 08, 2013

In a rare testimony, writer and author Mira Kamdar recounts her own experience with conservative views towards women, even as a young girl in India. Though she grew up in the United S...

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Backstory: Protests in India

Thursday, August 25, 2011

A battle over anti-corruption legislation has led to major protests and hunger strikes in India. Mira Kamdar, senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and associate fellow at the Asia Society, fills us in on what’s going on there for today’s Backstory.

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Underreported: Agribusiness and India

Thursday, December 02, 2010

Mira Kamdar, senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and associate fellow at the Asia Society, examines why U.S. agribusinesses are extremely interested in India, especially when it comes to the development of new GMO crops.

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U.S. and Indian Economies

Monday, November 08, 2010

Roben Farzad, senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek, explains "quantitative easing" and is joined by Mira Kamdar, author of Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World  (Scribner, 2008), to discuss the economic significance of President Obama's trip to India.

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Underreported: Prospects for Indian-Pakistani Peace

Thursday, November 04, 2010

President Obama travels to India this weekend, and while his trip may come at time of heightened tensions between in the region, but India and Pakistan have been feuding for decades. Ending that conflict has become a centerpiece of the President’s foreign policy. On today’s second Underreported segment Mira Kamdar, senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and an associate fellow at the Asia Society looks at prospects for a comprehensive (and elusive) peace deal between India and Pakistan, and what it could mean for U.S. interests in the region, including in Afghanistan.

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Bhopal Liability

Monday, June 07, 2010

Mira Kamdar, fellow at the Asia Society and senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, discusses the eight convictions of Union Carbide representatives in relation to the Bhopal.

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India: Voting in the World's Biggest Democracy

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Polling stations are open today in India's marathon five-phase election where millions of voters in 85 constituencies across seven states and in Delhi are expected to cast their ballo...

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Pakistan Takes on the Taliban

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Yesterday, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari met with President Barack Obama and Afghani President Hamid Karzai at the White House, determined to convey his commitment to fighting...

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New Diplomat Corps Job One: India and Pakistan

Monday, December 01, 2008

Lane Greene, international correspondent for The Economist and Mira Kamdar, associate fellow at The Asia Society and the author of Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World , discuss President-elect Obama's national security team and the last ...

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