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Has India’s “City Beautiful” Chandigarh Sold Its Soul?

Post author By Chloe Bird
Post date November 17, 2025

Chandigarh’s local residents playing football beneath the Open Hand Monument

The author remembers a Chandigarh of proportion and quiet pride and mourns what its beauty has become.

Tags chandigarh, consumerism, culture, luxury, metropolis, overindulgence, prestige, social status

Eyes on the U.S. Migrant Lives

When China Comes Knocking At The Ivy League

Post author By
Post date June 17, 2015

Graduation day at Columbia University on May 20 Wang Lei/Xihua/ZUMA

Reflections on the influx of (mostly) wealthy Chinese students enrolling at New York’s Columbia University.

Tags china, Chinese students, columbia, money, prestige, testing

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