Kapur takes over helm of UPenn's India centre

Professor Devesh Kapur, 47, has taken over as the new director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Advanced Study of India, succeeding CASI's founding director Professor Francine......

Saurabh Netravalkar And The H-1B Dream

The US needs to understand that it could potentially lose out on attracting several Netravalkars in the future if it curbs the influx of such industrious Indian immigrants, argues Vishal Menon.......

'Indian American Young Men May Vote For Trump'

'One of the big findings is that younger men seem to have shifted towards the Republican Party.''In 2020, about 23% of younger men said they would vote Trump.''Now that number is 48%.''It is like a......

The elite's classrooms

The government is internationalising Indian higher education in quite the wrong way, says Devesh Kapur The Indian government recently announced a grant of Rs 25 crore to Oxford University for the......

4 reforms that can solve India's land woes

 India needs to do away with income tax concessions that encourage purchase of housing, say Devesh Kapur and T V Somanathan and Arvind Subramanian. How can India reduce the severe......

Are special perks for VIPs in India justified?

The race for VIP perks has pernicious consequences and is undermining the elite's authority, says Devesh Kapur. Edward Said once wrote a short piece examining people in positions of power and......

India's biggest problem: Scarcity of land

India must mount nothing short of a war effort to address what is becoming a binding constraint on India’s development, explain Devesh Kapur, T V Somanathan & Arvind Subramanian. Capital,......

Bengal: The Tea Party state

West Bengal's politicians have starved their state of revenue, and thus crippled its ability to serve its citizens, writes Devesh Kapur A fundamental tenet of state power is its capacity to extract......