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Mira Kamdar

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Mira Kamdar’s Biography

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I write about international affairs for the Editorial page of the [The New York Times] (http//nytimes.com). Author of Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey into her Indian Family's Past (Public Affairs 2000), Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the World's Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World (Scribner 2007), and India in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press 2018). I live in Pantin, a banlieue of Paris, where I am keenly engaged in and observant of the transformations of a t…

Mira Kamdar’s Journalist Portfolio

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10 French Novels to Read Now

10 French Novels to Read Now

France, or, rather, the French language, since not all authors who write in French hail from France, is the g…

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Opinion | Around the Mediterranean, the Fire This Time

Opinion | Around the Mediterranean, the Fire This Time

While forest fires are a normal feature of summer in Mediterranean Europe, the frequency and intensity of the…

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Opinion | Embracing Fraternity in a Paris Banlieue

Opinion | Embracing Fraternity in a Paris Banlieue

For many of those I spoke with in Seine-Saint-Denis, even those willing to give the new president a chance, M…

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Opinion | The Suspense Is Almost Too Much for the French

Opinion | The Suspense Is Almost Too Much for the French

“Anyone but Le Pen.” That was the refrain at an open-air market on Wednesday in this banlieue, just northeast…

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Opinion | They'll Always Have Paris, Despite What Trump Says

Opinion | They'll Always Have Paris, Despite What Trump Says

President Trump’s disparaging remark last Friday, that Paris was not what it used to be, would be something o…

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Opinion | In Paris, Worries That Trump Will Embolden Le Pen

Opinion | In Paris, Worries That Trump Will Embolden Le Pen

Adiaratou Diarrassouba, a co-founder of the blog L’Afro, told me that in her view: “The United States has mad…

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My Danish-Indian family has experienced empire first-hand. For all of us, Trumps imperialism is terrifying

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By Mira Kamdar
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As an American of mixed Danish and Indian heritage, who is also a citizen of France and, therefore, of the EU, Donald Trumps contempt for the rule of law fills me with dread. I dont need international law, he boasted on 7 January in an interview with the New York Times. For Louis XIV, it was Ltat, cest moi. For Trump, its the Donroe doctrine, or the western hemisphere is mine for whatever profit I and my elite group of loyal courtiers can wring from it.
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Why America Is Beating Europe on Vaccination

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By Paris banlieue resident, Mira Kamdar
| The Atlantic Verified
Last summer, France’s pandemic response seemed far more competent than America’s. In the vaccine stage, everything looks different. March 26, 2021 Author and Paris banlieue resident Updated at 3:15 p.m. on March 29, 2021.
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Things That Go Bump in the Night

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By Mira Kamdar
| Slate Verified
Dispatches Things that go bump in the night. The courtyard of the home where I stayed JAITU, FARIDKOT DISTRICT, India—Wrapped in a musky blanket under a fan that was frantically trying to beat the air free of mosquitoes, exhaustion was finally overtaking me when I vaguely felt something nuzzle my left hand. In theory, I was alone, deadbolted away from the family of six, who were sleeping outside on string cots so I could have the only bed in the only room of their home.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Member of the Editorial Board, @nytimes

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

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Social media is completely upending how news is reported, disseminated and accessed. It has also become a maker of news.
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