By Chandru Acharya PARENTING THE SECOND GENERATION As a first generation American who grew up in India, it seems counter-intuitive, at first, to be writing about growing up Hindu in America. Reflecting on my experience as a parent raising two Hindu American teens, though, a 19-year old and a 13-year old, I feel emboldened to […]
Read MoreWith Robert Doar AEI, Auditorium1789 Massachusetts Avenue NWWashington, DC 20036 Contact Information For more information, please contact Andrew Smith at Andrew.smith@aei.org, 202.862.5937. Event Summary Friday at AEI, Stanford’s Raj Chetty discussed his economic mobility research. He showed how absolute mobility (the percentage of children who make more than their parents did at age 30) has fallen […]
Read MoreBy AB Wire The former SelectUSA chief speaks about his 8 years in public service and his friendship with Obama, who was his one-time roommate. By Asif Ismail Editor’s note: This is the first in a series on prominent Indian and South Asian Americans who served in the Obama administration. WASHINGTON, DC: Vinai Thummalapally is one […]
Read MoreBy Marco della Cava for USA TODAY REDMOND, Wash. — Last March, Microsoft unveiled Tay.ai, a Twitter bot that promised to usher in a new era of human-to-artificial-intelligence conversation. Within hours, hackers turned Tay into a venom-spewing racist, and the project was quickly shuttered with a public apology. In the old days of Microsoft, heads surely would […]
Read MoreBy Cindy Cantrell Nine-year-old Oyon Ganguli of Waltham has a lot of ideas to make the world a better place. One of them, which he calls “The Cleaner,” was selected as the winner of the second annual Mighty Minds contest, a national competition for youth inventors sponsored by Camp Invention and the National Inventors Hall […]
Read MoreBy Kanchan Chandra Kanchan Chandra is a professor of politics at New York University whose research focuses on comparative ethnic politics. “If I am elected president,” said Donald Trump, speaking on Saturday to a gathering in Edison, N.J., organized by the Republican Hindu Coalition, “the Indian and Hindu community will have a big friend in the […]
Read MoreBy Arthur Lubow When Sandhini Poddar first saw the paintings of V. S. Gaitonde, their silence spoke loudly. Displayed in a group show in 1997 at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai, the large abstract canvases, with layered colors and textures, invited long contemplation. “This was a feeling that wasn’t ephemeral, it stayed with […]
Read MoreMAGAZINE ARTICLE from 2015 by Adi Ignatius Just a few years ago, it wasn’t clear whether Indra Nooyi would survive as PepsiCo’s CEO. Many investors saw Pepsi as a bloated giant whose top brands were losing market share. And they were critical of Nooyi’s shift toward a more health-oriented overall product line. Prominent activist investor Nelson […]
Read MoreBy Naina Chaturvedi HOUSTON — A 16-year-old Indian-American boy has created a low-cost hearing aid costing USD 60 to help those who cannot afford expensive devices. Mukund Venkatakrishnan of Kentucky’s Louisville city worked on the device for two years and presented it at the Jefferson County Public Schools Idea Fest and recently won first place the […]
Read Moreby Jeffrey Armstrong Introduction: Jeffrey Armstrong is an award-winning author of numerous books on Vedic knowledge including his recent book: Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar, Ancient Wisdom for a New World. He is a philosopher, practitioner and teacher of the Vedas for the past 40 years. He has degrees in Psychology, History & Comparative Religions, and Literature […]
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