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Inside the competitive Indian-American spelling community by Vauhini Vara The final two contestants of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, held just…

2017 National Young Women of Distinction – Rajvi Ranka

Girl Scouts of the USA   For her Gold Award, Rajvi, 18, from Girl Scouts of Northern California, developed soil…

Remembering the First Indian-American Children’s Book to Win a Newbery

By Lakshmi Gandhi It may be the first children’s book by an Indian-American author to win the John Newbery Medal for…

Breaking Into One of Los Angeles’ Toughest Boys’ Clubs

By Monica Luhar Nisha Sembi captures the sights, sounds, and memories from her Motherland through a can of spray paint and…

Dancing into their heritage

Classical Indian dances connect American-born generation to their roots By Carrie Seidman When Sarina Sallapudi was assigned to dance the…

On Raising Hindu Americans in Detroit, Michigan

By Chandru Acharya PARENTING THE SECOND GENERATION As a first generation American who grew up in India, it seems counter-intuitive,…

Improving Economic Opportunity in America: A Discussion with Raj Chetty

With Robert Doar AEI, Auditorium1789 Massachusetts Avenue NWWashington, DC 20036   Contact Information For more information, please contact Andrew Smith at Andrew.smith@aei.org,…

I feel privileged to have had opportunity to give back to United States: Vinai Thummalapally

By AB Wire The former SelectUSA chief speaks about his 8 years in public service and his friendship with Obama, who…

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is counting on culture shock to drive growth

By Marco della Cava for USA TODAY REDMOND, Wash. — Last March, Microsoft unveiled Tay.ai, a Twitter bot that promised…

Waltham 9-year-old wins youth inventor award

By Cindy Cantrell Nine-year-old Oyon Ganguli of Waltham has a lot of ideas to make the world a better place.…