About Us
NRI Affairs is an independent news publication for the Indian diaspora. We have published since March 2021, and the archive now runs to about 3,000 articles. The masthead reads India & the world, and that is the angle: India reported for readers who do not live there, and diaspora life reported as domestic news rather than as foreign correspondence.
NRI Affairs is a platform for overseas Indians and South Asians to stay connected with their culture and a window into their lives. We provide news, opinion, art and entertainment to diaspora communities around the world. We are also part of a broader effort of community transformation and advocacy aimed at mobilising overseas Indians to social justice causes, including environmental justice, socio-economic justice, gender equity, immigrant rights and anti-discrimination.
What we cover
The site is organised into desks.
- News — reporting from India and from the countries our readers live in.
- Opinion — argument, kept separate from the reporting and carrying its author’s name.
- Diaspora — community, migration and identity across the countries our readers live in.
- Visa & Mobility — the rule changes, fees and pathways that decide whether people can move, stay or bring family.
- Student Hub — study pathways, fees and the rules that apply to international students.
- Business — trade, work and enterprise.
- Culture — books, film, art and the diaspora’s own cultural production.
- Books We’re Reading — the books on the desk, and why they are there.
- People — the individuals behind the stories we report.
- Watch — interviews and video from our YouTube channel.
- Events — what is on in the communities we cover.
- Hindi — reporting and writing in Devanagari rather than in translation.
Pause with Nandini, our podcast and interview series, is hosted by Culture Editor Nandini Sen Mehra.
Where we report from
We are based in Australia, and Australia carries the largest share of our coverage. After it, by volume of published work, come the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand. That is where the reporting concentrates; it is not the limit of it.
Who we are and how we are funded
NRI Affairs is independent and is published from Australia. Advertising pays for the reporting. It does not shape it. Every placement is labelled Sponsored. Buying a placement buys the placement, not coverage, a favourable angle or the removal of a story. The inventory and the rules are on the advertise page.
Our standards
News copy attributes contested claims to a named person, institution or document, and gives the party under scrutiny their own words before the criticism. Opinion is labelled as opinion and carries its author’s name. Where we get something wrong, we correct it on the page and say what changed. The full position, including how to ask for a correction, is on the Editorial standards and corrections page.
The Hindi desk
Our Hindi desk publishes in Devanagari. The work is written in Hindi, not translated from the English desks.
The Friday Brief
Our newsletter, The Friday Brief, is one email a week: the week that mattered for Indians abroad, drawn from across the desks. Sign up here.
Media literacy
Our Media Literacy guide is published in English, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali and Tamil, with a free downloadable toolkit. It also sets out our own position on sourcing and corrections.
Contact
Story tips, corrections, letters and republication requests reach the desk through the contact page or at contact@nriaffairs.com. Advertising enquiries are handled on the advertise page. We are on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.