Jason Overdorf

GlobalPost

Jason Overdorf is GlobalPost's Senior Correspondent in Berlin. He previously covered India for GlobalPost, and spent about 15 years living and working in Asia, where he was a frequent contributor at Newsweek International and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He is a former recipient of a reporting fellowship from the South Asian Journalist Association and has been honored with awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the World Health Organization and the Society of American Travel Writers. His travel articles, personal essays and political commentary have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, the Asian Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine, Departures, Travelers' Tales and other publications. He has degrees in English literature and creative writing from Columbia University, Washington University and Boston University.


India fails to pass anti-corruption law

Politics

Attention now turns to electoral politics, and who takes the blame

New studies show role of caste and creed in Indian inequality

The World

India’s market is in the tank. Should you double down?

The Shiva Rules: Is growth enough?

The failed promise of India’s once beloved prime minister

India opens stock markets to foreigners

Move allows individuals to trade in Indian markets

India’s reforms spurred inequality

Former finance minister explains public distrust of economic reforms

The World

Indian PM’s plans for 2012: Raise funds, control spending

Singh pins hopes on goods and services tax

The World

Have India’s reforms been turned upside down?

Economist Bharat Jhunjhunwala argues that reforms have become a tax to support the bureaucracy

Gulf states to invest billons in India

Kuwait alone plans $10 billion investment