Shikha Dalmia
Shikha Dalmia was a senior analyst at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
A more complete archive of her work can be found here at Reason.com.
Dalmia is a columnist at The Week and writes regularly for Reason magazine. Her work also appears in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications such as The Times of London, Time, USA Today and The Daily Beast. She previously served as a columnist for Forbes and the Washington Examiner.
Dalmia's feature on sanctuary churches won the first prize in immigration reporting at the 2019 Southern California Journalism Awards. She was co-winner of the first 2009 Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism for her columns in Forbes and Reason.
From 1996 to 2004, Dalmia was an award-winning editorial writer at the Detroit News, covering a variety of policy issues, including the environment, immigration, Social Security, health care and foreign policy. She also worked as a reporter for the Patriot, a national daily newspaper based in New Delhi, India, where she grew up and earned her B.S. degree in chemistry and biology from the University of Delhi.
Dalmia frequently appears on Fox Business Network, BBC Business Matters, MSNBC and other television and radio outlets.
Dalmia, who taught news writing courses at Michigan State University, earned a Master's degree in mass communication from Louisiana State University. She also holds a post-graduate diploma in journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communications.
She lives in the Detroit area with her husband and son.
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Olympic Diplomacy: Don’t Fear China
The mainland has everything to gain from a stable relationship with the U.S. It's not going to act rashly, and neither should America
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Keep Open Markets in Food
The ban on food exports is not just economically counterproductive, but also strategically short-sighted
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Detroit’s Scandal Is About More Than Sex
Mayor Kilpatrick's battles further delay economic revival
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Scrap the Visa Cap
America's ability to attract new foreign-born workers and to keep the existing ones is diminishing
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Why Penalize Peter to Deport Pablo?
The SAVE Act won't stop illegal immigration, but might cost you your job
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The New New Thing
Are subsidies wrecking the development of a clean energy source?
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Legacy Admissions Hurt Middle-Class Students
Stanford, Yale, Harvard and other universities offer tuition breaks but don't fix admissions process
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Yes: Inclusive Health Care Is Expensive, but Just How Expensive?
Letters to the Editor
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Legacies of Injustice
Alumni preferences threaten educational equity--and no one seems to care.
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Saying No to CoerciveCare
Obama's plan isn't perfect, but it is much better than HillaryCare and Schwarzenneger's GovernatorCare
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Dingell Bells
Congressional Democrats' Christmas gift for U.S. automakers
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Benazir Bhutto’s Political Future
The murdered former leader may help Pakistani democracy more in death than in life.
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Ahnuld’s Folly
NYers lucky to escape fake warming fix
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Don’t Revamp Michigan Driver’s Licenses
Onerous federal law is headed for repeal; state proposal bans illegal immigrants
