Mira Kamdar, senior fellow of the World Policy Institute, former Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society, author of the book Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World, believes that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is playing to his conservative base with his widely-condemned move to exile his nation's Roma minorities. Kamdar, who recently taught a course at Sciences-Po on the Rise of India in a Changing World Order and will be Fulbright Senior Scholar beginning in October, also believes that the future of India still reflects the four-part reality of Richer, Poorer, Hotter, Armed as it seeks to respond to the global recession and find its way toward prosperity for its poorest citizens. Kamdar is a guest of World Policy Journal editor David A. Andelman on the weekly World Policy on Air podcast.
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