Aarti Betigeri
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Aarti Betigeri is a multi-platform journalist and former foreign correspondent based in Canberra. She is a correspondent for Monocle and contributes to various other local and foreign media outlets. She recently returned to Australia after almost a decade in India, where she reported across South Asia for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, the Christian Science Monitor, Public Radio International, and many others. She has interviewed three world leaders and worked on major investigative journalism initiatives including an ABC Foreign Correspondent documentary on international surrogacy. Prior to moving to India, she was a television news journalist and presenter with the ABC and SBS.
US foreign worker visas: Where there’s crisis, there’s opportunity
Highly skilled Indian workers will be looking elsewhere after Trump’s visa decision. This could be Australia’s moment.
Trump and Modi’s shared blueprint for concentrating power and repressing dissent
One on a fast track, the other a slow burn, both leaders are rewriting democratic rules to suit themselves.
This summer, could Australia vs India take cricket’s greatest rivalry out of the Anglosphere?
Talk of cricket diplomacy often prompts a collective eyeroll. Only, it cuts through.
Why India’s festive season could hold the key to soft power gains
Governments the world over are harnessing the positivity of the Indian festival of lights.
Bangladesh: The economist turned saviour
Mohammad Yunus paid a hard price for his success after falling out with power. He now faces the most extraordinary test.
India’s proud history of anti-incumbency is back
The Australian government will be cheered by continuity. Indian voters, meantime, have pushed back against the strongman.
Reverse colonialism? India and Britain’s free trade agreements
The failure of FTA talks between New Delhi and London rings with an unmistakable tone of irony.
Will Modi charm again in Washington?
The Indian PM’s visit will see Biden embrace a polarising leader while trying to keep an influential diaspora onside.
To India, spoils of empire a less sparkly side of Charles’ coronation
Narendra Modi has set out to erase a colonial mindset in public life, but its replacement has generated its own unease.
