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Expertise Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Equity, Food Security, France, India, Global Warming, Globalization, Immigration, Immigrant Diasporas, Industrial Agriculture, Indian Diaspora, Minority Integration, Security, South Asia, Sustainability, U.S.-India Relations, Women in the Evolving Global Economy.
Mira Kamdar has been a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute since 1992, and was Acting Director in 1996-97. Her latest book, Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World, will be released in paperback in the United States in February 2008 (Scribner). The book has been published in separate English-language editions in India and in the United Kingdom, as well as in Hindi, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, French and Chinese translations. Her critically acclaimed memoir, Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey into her Indian Family's Past (Public Affairs 2000) was a 2000 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and won the 2002 Washington Book Award.
Mira has been appointed a Bernard Schwartz Fellow of the Asia Society for the calendar year 2008. She will be based at the Society's New York headquarters, where her work will focus on issues of equity and sustainability in the context of accelerating globalization and climate change, and on a changing U.S.-Asia relationship.
Mira is a regular speaker at high-level international gatherings, and has addressed audiences on India and global affairs at venues as diverse as the Asia Society in New York and in Mumbai; the Observer Research Foundation, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the India International Centre in New Delhi; the Centre for International Relations Studies at Sciences Po in Paris; J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Altria, Lehman Brothers, The New School, Columbia University, the University of Washington School of Business, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, and various World Affairs Council chapters across the United States.
Mira Kamdar's opinions and articles have appeared in publications around the world, including Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, World Policy Journal, Times of India, Daily News & Analysis, Outlook, Tehelka, The Guardian online and Yale Global. She has provided expert commentary and been interviewed for radio and television outlets such as CNN International, Bloomberg TV, BBC, National Public Radio, TV Ontario, Public Radio International, Headlines Today, South Asia World, and TV Asia.
Experience
Honors and
Affiliations
Pacific Council on International Policy (Bilateral Task Force on India-US Relations 2004); SAJA, South Asian Journalists Association
Education
Languages
BOOKS
By Senior Fellow Mira Kamdar Scribner, 2007
Praise from Asia Times Jul. 28, 2007; chosen as one of The Nation's best books on Asia for 2007. Reviewed by Chennai Online, February 7, 2008.
The French edition Ms. Kamdar's new book will be published in January 2008 as Planet India: L’Ascension turbulente d’un géant démocratique (Actes Sud; translator Andre Levin). The U.S. paperback edition, following the February 2007 hardcover, will be published in February 2008 with a new subtitle as Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World. Pre-purchase a copy at Amazon here.
Motiba’s Tattoos: A Granddaughter’s Journey from America into her Indian Family’s Past By Senior Fellow Mira Kamdar Plume, 2001 A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection 2002 Washington Book Award
SELECTED ARTICLES A select list of Dr. Kamdar's work can be viewed at http://www.mirakamdar.com/articles.html
More on Mira Kamdar at http://www.mirakamdar.com/
and Read her blog at http://mirakamdar.blogspot.com/
* "Birmanie, le double dilemme," (Burma's double dilemma) (in French) for Le Monde Diplomatique, May 6, 2008. "India's Fiscal Follies" for Project Syndicate, April 2008.
"India's Budget May Backfire," The Australian, April 3, 2008.
"Tata's on a Tear," Forbes.com, February 25, 2008.
Le Figaro (France) published an interview with Mira on February 20, 2008.
“A Bollywood Bride for Sarkozy?” The Journal of Turkish Weekly, January 30, 2008.
Interviewed for Outlook (India) on January 28, 2008, for the article, “Out Here The Nano is a No-No.”
“It Costs Just $2,500. It’s Cute as a Bug. And it Could Mean Global Disaster,” The Washington Post, January 13, 2008.
China, Burma, and the West: A Conflict of Interests. Commentisfree.com October 14, 2007.
“Forget the Israel Lobby. The Hill’s Next Big Player is Made in India,” Washington Post Outlook, Sep. 30, 2007.
“Climate Change Challenge for the Poor, Part II,” YaleGlobal, Sep. 28, 2007.
“India and the United States,” Forbes.com, Aug. 13, 2007.
"An American in Paris? A Guided Tour of Sarkoland," World Policy Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2007.
"The Real Prize in India-U.S. Relations," World Policy Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4, 2006/07.
"April in Paris," World Policy Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2005.
"The Struggle for India's Soul," World Policy Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2002.
"Rangoon: A Remembrance of Things Past," World Policy Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, 1999.
MEDIA
On February 7, 2008, France Info Radio interviewed Mira Kamdar in a segment titled, "Le Livre du Jour."
Planet India was included by The Nation for its list of best books on Asia, 2007.
CNN
International, Hong Kong (remote from New York), Interview on the GAP
and child labor in India, October 30, 2007. Bloomberg Asia Pacific, Hong Kong (remote from New York), Interview on Secretary Paulson's visit to India, October 29, 2007.
"Asia Society
Presents India@60," Asian America Television, in conversation with Vishakha
Desai and Joydeep Mukherjee, New York, October 2, 2007. "India After Gandhi," BookTV / CSPAN, introduced author Ramachandra Guha and moderated discussion with audience, sponsored by SAJA (South Asian Journalists Association), Tamarind Art Gallery, New York, September 25, 2007.
Reuters TV, New York, Interview on Indo-US nuclear deal, September 19, 2007.
LECTURES & APPEARANCES
Moderated a discussion with South Asian professional women at the South Asian Women's Leadership Forum at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York, March 15, 2008.
Spoke at the Vail Symposium on March 3, 2008.
Mira lectured on Planet India, at the Center for India Studies with the Wang Center, SUNY Stonybrook, on February 26, 2008 and again at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, on February 28, 2008.
Mira was the keynote speaker at the Annual Conference, Association of International Education Administrators, in Washington, D.C. on February 20, 2008.
Mira participated in the panel, "A Ticking Time Bomb: How Long will Asia's Poor Wait for Trickle Down?" with Tion Kwa and Ursula Schaefer-Preuss, Vice President, Asian Development Bank at the Asia Society, Washington DC, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on February 19, 2008.
Spoke at the Houston World Affairs Council, Sep. 26, 2007.
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