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Recursion

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2. A lot of my wife's family splits time between India and the US

Reply to ShinPath (Original post)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 07:29 AM

Dec 2016

And I know they're taking a hard look at making more of that time in India.

Actually the Indian diaspora may be a good place to look for inspiration here. They are definitely a potent force in Indian politics. Our diaspora isn't that big, and so couldn't be quite as potent, but we could look at how Indian political movements (particularly the BJP) used them to great effect.

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