Madhusmita Bora covers the technology beat for the Business section. Maddie, as she is known is her adopted country, was born and raised in Assam, a northeast Indian state. Maddie grew up in a family of freedom fighters, educators, politicians and elephant trainers. She came to the U.S. in 1999, to pursue a masters in journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Since then, Maddie has covered a range of beats from politics and immigration to retail and lived in Iowa, Indiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida. When she's not chasing a tech story, Maddie is in New York jamming with her dance group the Kathak Ensemble. Her husband and best friend, Saurav, is a biophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania.

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