By Arun Kumar With 352,991 new cases India sets global record for fifth straight day. As India reported 352,991 new cases of coronavirus on Monday, the highest in a single day globally for fifth straight day, two Indian American CEOs pledged to rush critical aid to the land of their birth. Google’s Sundar Pichai and Microsoft’s […]
Read MoreBy Carl Samson Indian American journalist Megha Rajagopalan won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize on Friday for her coverage of China’s detention camps in Xinjiang. The recognition: Rajagopalan won the award for International Reporting with Alison Killing and Christo Buschek for BuzzFeed News, the first for the website since its founding in 2012. The team received the […]
Read MoreDivya Victor prefaces her new poetry collection, Curb, with four names—Balbir Singh Sodhi, Navroze Mody, Srinivas Kuchibhotla, Sunando Sen. By invoking the names of these four Indian American victims of racist violence in a post-9/11 America, Victor refuses to let their names disappear into mere statistics. In Curb, the South Asian immigrant becomes a subject of study […]
Read MoreBy Vignesh Ramachandran For the 30,000 or so Indian Americans living in Colorado, the coronavirus pandemic presents an emotional whiplash right now. About 43 percent of people in this state are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and hospitalizations continue to fall. Gov. Jared Polis has lifted the statewide mask mandate for vaccinated Coloradans. People are finding freedom they haven’t […]
Read MoreAuthor: Sherlene M Shanklin LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As the first Indian American to hold a seat in the Kentucky State Legislature, Rep. Nima Kulkarni said she entered into politics to light a fire for change. At the age of six, Kulkarni and her family moved directly to Louisville from India so that her brother could get the […]
Read MoreBy Nyapati R. Rao, MD, MS, DLFAPA EARTH & PSYCHIATRY -Series Editor: H. Steven Moffic, MD Nature is an integral part of religion. Religion serves as a bridge between humans and the environment by using rituals to mark the rhythm of the seasonal changes, to express gratitude for a bountiful harvest, and pray to keep […]
Read Moreby Rhianna Walton Sanjena Sathian’s novel Gold Diggers marks the arrival of a gifted and imaginative writer. Set primarily in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, in the early aughts, Gold Diggers is narrated by Neil Narayan, a well-intentioned teenager struggling to balance the expectations of his Indian immigrant family and community with his own desires for success, belonging, and love. […]
Read MoreBy Sanchita Dash From top execs such as Sundar Pichai at Google to Satya Nadella at Microsoft, Silicon Valley has a long list of Indian founders, too, who are making waves. Here’s a look at some of the Indian leaders of America’s hottest companies right now. From Baiju Bhatt at Robinhood to Rohan Seth at […]
Read MoreAn Indian American couple from Texas has donated more than ₹1 crore ($150,000) to healthcare works in Bihar and Jharkhand, the Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America (BJANA) has announced. The generous donation of $150,000 by the Ramesh and Kalpana Bhatia Family Foundation to the BJANA would be used for healthcare efforts in the rural areas […]
Read MoreBy Stuart Anderson Without a change in immigration law, it will be sometime in the year 2216—195 years from now—when the last person born in India waiting today in the employment-based immigrant backlog is expected to receive a green card. Barring advances in human longevity, businesses and high-skilled foreign nationals must rely on Congress to […]
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