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Kavitha Rajagopalan

Kavitha Rajagopalan is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and the World Policy Institute. She is the author of Muslims of Metropolis: The Stories of Three Immigrant Families in the West (Rutgers University Press 2008), which was the finalist for the Twelfth Asian American Literary Award in Nonfiction. She writes and comments widely on migration and diversity, previously as an oped columnist for PBS and Newsday. She has written for Next City, the Feminist Review, and various international policy magazines. She is co-author of a book on educational assessment (Palgrave Macmillan 2015), and her writing has been featured in an edited volume about child migrants and a photography book on third sex in India. Between 1998 and 2001, she was a reporter in Chennai, India and Berlin, Germany. She holds an MA from Columbia University’s School of International Affairs and a BA from the College of William & Mary, and is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a John J. McCloy Journalism Fellowship and a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. She is currently at work on a literary nonfiction book about the future of citizenship in the age of global movement.

Humayun's tomb is the tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun in Delhi, India.

Madam or Mr. President, Visit India First

Supporters of immigration rights protest against Republican candidates at a debate last September.

Strife of the Party: The GOP Ignores Its Own Advice on Immigration

By Kavitha Rajagopalan
Brad Mattson, CEO of CEO of Siva Power, installs solar panels in an off-grid Indian village

India’s Looming Energy Crisis

By Kavitha Rajagopalan
A group of colonials photographed with a pet cheetah during the days of the British Raj. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Facebook’s Faux Fight Against Poverty in India

By Kavitha Rajagopalan
AHMEDABAD, INDIA: (FILES) This picture taken 28 February 2002 shows Ahmedabad resident Jaiwantiben watching a wood market burning after it was set ablaze by Muslims that fled the Lathi bazar area in Ahmedabad. SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images)

Why Coldplay’s Cringeworthy New Video Insults Much of India

By Kavitha Rajagopalan
A Kurdish boy from the Syrian city of Afrin receives help after arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos along with other migrants and refugees, on November 17, 2015, after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey. At least eight people drowned when a boat carrying migrants from Turkey sank off the Greek island of Kos, the coastguard said on November 17, 2015. They were the latest of nearly 3,500 deaths at sea this year among people making desperate bids to flee war and poverty and to reach Europe, according to UN figures. European leaders tried to focus on joint action with Africa to tackle the migration crisis, as Slovenia became the latest EU member to act on its own by barricading its border. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)

Governors Who Reject Refugees Harm Their States

By Kavitha Rajagopalan
A French police officers stands as he controls vehicle at the French-Italian border line on November 14, 2015 in Menton as European capitals reinforced security checks following a series of coordinated attacks in and around Paris late on November 13 which left more than 120 people dead. AFP PHOTO / BORIS HORVAT (Photo credit should read BORIS HORVAT/AFP/Getty Images)

Why France Should Not Close Its Borders

By Kavitha Rajagopalan
Fans with portraits of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images)

This Burgeoning Democracy Faces a Threat From Within

By Kavitha Rajagopalan
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