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A deep dive into the professional struggles and private lives of Indians walking the H-1B tightrope
Editor's note: Towards the end of October 2018, as the leaves in Atlanta turned an autumn shade of red, a Bengali man with a broken leg awaited surgery. It was around 9 a.m., and he lay in the pre-operating room at Resurgens Orthopaedics in Roswell, Georgia, a northern suburb of Atlanta. According to the monitor above his head, everything looked normal.With him in the small room, partitioned by a curtain from other patients, were his wife and a close friend, a fellow Bengali. The three of them were members of Pujari, a Bengali association in Atlanta. Bijoy can’t quite recall the conversation they were having in the hospital room that morning. “It must have been a regular conversation about sports, movies, the weather. Not something I can remember.” And then someone in the room mentioned the term “H-1B”. The monitor above his head showed a sudden spike in his blood pressure. He couldn’t see it himself, but his wife and friend did. The H-1B visa is a temporary work visa that allows foreigners like Bijoy to enter the US if they have …
Influence cannot be manufactured through diaspora networks, carefully branded events or political donations. It requires honesty and credibility.
The US and Iran seem to have their own ideas for a possible ceasefire and conclusion to the ongoing war. Everyone else hangs in the balance.
Dubai International Airport and Fujairah port were once again disrupted on Monday. Separately, there is a new warning that this conflict could result in the region’s worst crises in decades.
