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Parag Khanna: Why Mobility is Destiny

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The Cost of Infrastructure in the Middle East

The cost of building new infrastructure is a lot more than it would be to just build desalination dikes, reflective paint and better air conditioning. The geopolitics trickles in the identity politics, trickles into the immigration policy,. So Indians can go everywhere today. And believe me, there were no other ethnic Indian people within a very significant radius when I was growing up.

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