Indians, Indians everywhere

Chinmay Tumbe's book 'India Moving - A History of Migration', the Foreword to which is written by Arvind Subramanian, former Chief Economic Advisor, is a breeze to read

When someone attempts an exhaustive piece of work on migration, irrespective of nationalities, it becomes pertinent to examine a few things within German geographer-cartographer Ernst Georg Ravenstein’s so-called “Laws of Migration”. These eight laws state: Short-distance migrations produce waves of migrants usually towards great centres of commerce and industry; economic migration generally happens in stages rather than as a mass exodus; each stream of migration produces a compensating counter-current of migrants; city and town people are less migratory than their rural counterparts; females will migrate more over shorter distances than males; long-distance migration will also invariably proceed towards great commercial