Rohan Venkat

1 month ago | rohanvenkat.substack.com | Rohan Venkat |Marc Lynch |Milan Vaishnav

When the techbro vs MAGA ‘civil war’ first broke out in December 2024 over the question of H-1B visas and high-skilled immigration into the US, its implications for Indians and Indian-Americans – as the community that has received the lion’s share of those visas – were obvious. (It also, unsurprisingly, led to a huge surge of anti-Indian hate in the US). Then US President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning birthright citizenship.

Dec 27, 2024 | southasianvoices.org | Rohan Venkat

As 2024 comes to an end, India finds itself out of step with global trends. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government was not swept away by the global anti-incumbency wave. Conflicts in Europe and West Asia did not pose fundamental threats, nor did they roil India’s internal politics or its economy. The victory of President-elect Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential elections did not lead to the jitters now afflicting America’s allies and rivals alike.

Oct 28, 2024 | rohanvenkat.substack.com | Rohan Venkat

Quick plug: On the Political Cycle, we spoke to MomLeft’s Kelly Weil about the how parents and gender rights fit into this year’s US elections. Thanks for reading India Inside Out by Rohan Venkat! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Globally, India isn’t often thought about as a country with too few people. After all, it was only in 2023 that India overtook China as the world’s most populous country, with a staggering 1.4 billion people.

Oct 1, 2024 | rohanvenkat.substack.com | Rohan Venkat

Welcome back to India Inside Out, which returns after a somewhat extended summer break wherein I managed to get a brief glimpse of Neeraj Chopra (and the little remote-control cars that carry the javelin lances back and forth) at the Stade de France and also got do some cycling – with two-year-old in tow – in the Loire Valley, in the hopes of living up to the name of the podcast I co-host (more on that below).

Sep 20, 2024 | scroll.in | Emily Tamkin |Tom Hamilton |Rohan Venkat

Last week, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump took to the stage for the first – and, increasingly likely, the only – Presidential debate. In it, Trump propounded a conspiracy theory about Haitian migrants eating the pets of residents in Springfield, Ohio. What was going on there? And why does the Trump campaign want to keep talking about immigration in this campaign? Emily Tamkin gives the full debate low-down, while Tom Hamilton and Rohan Venkat look at the similarities across Europe and Asia.