Editorial
Diaspora Dreams series
Multi-part reference works that anchor the publication's journalism. Each series is reported carefully, sourced primarily, and designed to be returned to.
A Diaspora Dreams series
5 of 5 published
The OCI's Guide to India
A reference series for the Indian diaspora navigating life back home — the rules, the routes, the practical work.
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4 of 4 published
The Yoga Conversation
Diaspora Dreams interviews the teachers, scholars, and practitioners shaping how the yoga tradition lives outside India.
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12 of 12 published
The Masters Who Crossed the Ocean
Twelve Indian masters of the long twentieth century who carried yoga and Indian spirituality across the world — published one a day.
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6 of 6 published
Children of the Girmit
The Girmitiya diaspora, one country at a time — how the descendants of indenture built nations across the old plantation world.
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7 of 7 published
The Living Gurus
The present-tense companion to The Masters Who Crossed the Ocean — today's Indian spiritual leaders and the global movements they command.
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6 of 6 published
The Diaspora Plate
How Indian food remade itself abroad — the dishes migration invented, from the British curry house to the Trinidadian roti shop.
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A Diaspora Dreams series
6 of 6 published
Power Abroad
The Indian diaspora's rise to political power — the prime ministers, presidents and leaders of Indian descent across the world.
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A Diaspora Dreams series
6 of 6 published
Mother Tongues
What happened to Indian languages abroad — the tongues the diaspora kept, lost, and remade.
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A Diaspora Dreams series
6 of 6 published
Temples of the Diaspora
A diaspora announces its permanence in stone — the great temples the Indian world built abroad, and what they mean.
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6 of 6 published
The NRI Money Guide
The money companion to the OCI's Guide — one careful explainer on each financial system an overseas Indian has to navigate back home.
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A Diaspora Dreams series
5 of 5 published
The Crossing
The Indian student's journey abroad, end to end — choosing the country, clearing the visa, finding the money, and weighing the return.
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A Diaspora Dreams series
8 of 8 published
The Diaspora Screen
Indian cinema and the diaspora — the films made for us abroad, the film-makers we produced, and the stories the screen tells about leaving.
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