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  • ‘The Magnificent Ruins’: A sprawling family drama that suffers from the outside-in gaze

    ‘The Magnificent Ruins’: A sprawling family drama that suffers from the outside-in gaze

    Sayari Debnath
    · May 23, 2026 · 08:30 am
  • Fiction: A teacher from Kerala takes a job in Dubai in the 1990s, but being an immigrant isn’t easy

    Fiction: A teacher from Kerala takes a job in Dubai in the 1990s, but being an immigrant isn’t easy

    Devi Yesodharan
    · Oct 22, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • The immigrant Indian: How a Punjabi became a dairy farmer in Italy (after working in the circus)

    The immigrant Indian: How a Punjabi became a dairy farmer in Italy (after working in the circus)

    Simran Chawla
    · Oct 10, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • Nikesh Shukla’s new novel captures the immigrant experience in the UK through three generations

    Nikesh Shukla’s new novel captures the immigrant experience in the UK through three generations

    Nikesh Shukla
    · May 15, 2018 · 05:30 pm
  • Assam: A retired Army officer has been asked to prove he is not an illegal immigrant

    Assam: A retired Army officer has been asked to prove he is not an illegal immigrant

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    · Oct 01, 2017 · 01:05 pm
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    Watch: What is it like being an Indian-American Muslim musician? Zeshan Bagewadi tells you

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    · Jul 03, 2017 · 05:00 pm
  • This clever form of erotica is a novel that tells a quite different story about Indian immigrants

    This clever form of erotica is a novel that tells a quite different story about Indian immigrants

    Balli Kaur Jaswal
    · Apr 12, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • The man who became a suitcase. The ‘fone’ that let people talk forever. The migrant who tried to fly

    The man who became a suitcase. The ‘fone’ that let people talk forever. The migrant who tried to fly

    Anu Kumar
    · Mar 05, 2017 · 06:30 am
  • Behind America's success in the Nobels is the story of immigrants

    Behind America's success in the Nobels is the story of immigrants

    Adil Najam, The Conversation
    · Oct 21, 2016 · 03:30 pm
  • Priyanka Chopra's magazine cover decried on Twitter as 'appalling' and 'privilege-strutting'

    Priyanka Chopra's magazine cover decried on Twitter as 'appalling' and 'privilege-strutting'

    Rhema Mukti Baxter
    · Oct 10, 2016 · 03:50 pm