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Wild Wild East, my book on the systemic abuse of the H-1B visa program, on Amazon India: amzn.in/d/0eosaebt Amazon US: a.co/0ixjhxcZ

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Tanul Thakur’s Journalist Portfolio

Written Off

Written Off

ZOYA AKHTAR'S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT, Luck by Chance, begins, like most Bollywood movies, with a list of acknowled…

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The Fan

The Fan

ON 2 NOVEMBER 2014, Shah Rukh Khan's forty-ninth birthday, a horde of his fans gathered outside the front gat…

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Inside the Colourful and Disturbing World of Guddu Rangila | The Big Indian Picture

Inside the Colourful and Disturbing World of Guddu Rangila | The Big Indian Picture

A profile of Guddu Rangila, one of Bhojpuri cinema's most popular stars, known particularly for the offensive…

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The Extraordinary Network Across India That's Helping Restore Our Film Heritage, One Trashed Reel...

The Extraordinary Network Across India That's Helping Restore Our Film Heritage, One Trashed Reel...

One October afternoon in 2013, a scrap dealer based out of Goregaon, a Mumbai suburb, left his phone number a…

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The Final Sanjana and Other Truths About the New Horrex Heroine

The Final Sanjana and Other Truths About the New Horrex Heroine

"Sunny Leone wishes Eid Mubarak from LA." The piece informed the readers that Leone's next film, On August 11…

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The Dark Side of the H-1B Dream

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By Milan Vaishnav, Tanul Thakur
| Carnegie Endowment
Milan Vaishnav and Tanul Thakur discuss Tanul's new book "Wild Wild East: Exiled Americans, Enslaved Indians and the Systemic Abuse of the H-1B Visa Programme." By Milan Vaishnav and Tanul Thakur Published on Jun 16, 2026 Subscribe on Program The South Asia Program informs policy debates relating to the region’s security, economy, and political development.
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How US tech industry created a labour shortage narrative to expand H1B visa programme

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By Tanul Thakur
| ThePrint Verified
Prodded by the ITAA, the DOC co-sponsored a two-day National IT Workforce Convocation in Berkeley. The New York Times published a piece on the front page, quoting the ITAA chief, Silicon Valley executives and noted academics, confirming an acute labour shortage. Other media outlets sang the same tune. But a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the congressional watchdog, flagged ‘serious analytical and methodological’ errors in the DOC and ITAA studies.
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‘Heads they won, tails he lost’: How ‘desi consultancies’ prey on Indian grads in America

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By Tanul Thakur
| Inkl
Manu rushed through the John F. Kennedy International Airport, hoping to reach the college as soon as possible. He had refused the pick-up offer from the Indian Student Association, thinking he’d take a bus. But, outside the airport, New York overwhelmed him, so he asked a middle-aged American about the Bridgeport shuttle. ‘You know what,’ he said. ‘I’ll take you.’ Manu didn’t get him. The man asked whether Manu wanted to use the restroom. He did; it was a long flight.
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Awards

National Film Award

2015 - Film criticism and feature writing

The National Film Award for Best Film Critic is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus). The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

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