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Election Diary: Madhya Pradesh
India’s general elections — the world’s largest democratic exercise — were too exciting for me to sit on the sidelines. So I decided to camp out in Madhya Pradesh, a politically important battleground state which the Congress had wrested from the BJP in the December 2018 assembly elections, and ask its young voters about the…
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Young voters in the Indian general elections
India’s ongoing general elections are the world’s largest exercise of democracy. Set over seven phases with more than 900 million voters, the contest to elect India’s parliament will not just be a referendum on the last five years of Prime Minister Modi’s government, but also about the country India hopes to become as the 21st…
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Why the Delhi Government’s ‘Mega’ Job Fair Became Another Reminder of India’s Jobs Crisis
A few weeks ago, I saw a half-page advertisement on the front page of a major national newspaper. Put out by the Delhi government, it was promoting a “Mega Job Fair” at the Thyagraj Stadium on the 21st and 22nd of January. Since I’m writing a book on Indian millennials, I decided to go and…
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A few books I read in 2018
2018 was a good year. I got to meet some awesome people, travel to some incredible places, and read some great books. I haven’t updated this blog in a while, so I thought I’d write a brief post about the books I liked this year. In January, I had the opportunity to spend a few…
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Millennial Women @ Work
This August, I teamed up with Anuradha Das Mathur, Founding Dean of the Vedica Scholars Programme for Women, to survey and write about urban Indian millennial women at the workplace for the Mint, India’s pre-eminent financial newspaper. Our goal was to discover and document how young women are adapting and reacting to the 21st-century workplace. Is…
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What Millennials Want 