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‘Nation-states are failing migrants,’ says British Indian author Rana Dasgupta
He also warned of a growing divide between global cities and what he described as the “global countryside,” where people receive the least benefit from the nation-state system.
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Pranavi Sharma - Fri, 23, Jan 2026
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Rana Dasgupta at the sidelines of the Kerala literature festival / New India Abroad
British Indian author Rana Dasgupta said migrants are being unfairly blamed for deeper economic and political failures, arguing that migration is a fundamental and enduring condition of human history, not a modern crisis to be addressed through force or deportation.
“Migrants are not the enemy,” Dasgupta said in an exclusive interview with New India Abroad on the sidelines of the Kerala Literature Festival in Kozhikode, Kerala. He said countries facing anxiety and instability were misdiagnosing their problems by targeting immigrants instead of addressing structural failures at home.
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