Suketu Mehta

Suketu Mehta is the author of This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto, and of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He was born in Calcutta and lives in New York City, where he is an associate professor of journalism at New York University.

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The Story That Captures the Refugee Experience Like No Other

Sometimes the best take on current affairs is found not in the punditry of the cable shows but in great literature. Watching the horrific scenes in Kabul—the anguish of parents handing their babies to soldiers,...

By Suketu Mehta

We Do Not Come Empty-Handed: The Economic Case for Immigrants

America has succeeded, and achieved its present position of global dominance, because it has always been good at importing the talent it needs.Immigrants are 14% of the U.S. population, but they started a quarter of...

By Suketu Mehta
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