How Americans have adopted — and adapted — the Indian festival of Holi Religious practices go through change and transformation. (RNS) — The arrival of spring always brings sweet memories from my childhood in India of Holi: the sound of drumbeats and people dancing merrily in the streets, bodies smeared with a multitude of colors. […]
Read MoreJan 1, 2022 It was a tough and tumultuous year. Yet there are those who broke barriers, charted new paths and raised the bar for their peers. Here’s raising a toast to prominent Indian Americans who hogged the limelight for all good reasons. MEERA JOSHI In December 2021, Meera Joshi created history when New York’s Mayor-elect […]
Read MoreKicking off year two, the initial spring 2022 Meet a Data Scientist series lecture (held on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, 4:00-5:00 PM) featured USC Professor, Dr. Shri Narayanan, introduced by Dr. Daniel Messinger: “It’s a pleasure to welcome you all to our Meet a Data Scientist lecture series. The purpose of the series is to […]
Read MoreBY ANDREW J. CAMPA Seema Choudhary needed eight traditional Indian outfits for her daughter’s dance troupe. A few years ago, she might have driven the roughly 25 miles to Little India from her home in Irvine. This time, she ordered from a supplier more than 8,500 miles away in Gujarat, which offered lower prices and shipped […]
Read MoreBy Manisha Anil Rita One of the factors that makes the social media platform Tiktok stand out from many others is the opportunity to present very nuanced aspects of culture. While it continues to be banned in India, people have found work-arounds to present authentic content. From fusion dances, to inside cultural jokes about brown […]
Read MoreBy Raja Rajamannar Raja Rajamannar, Mastercard’s chief marketing and communications officer and chair of the judges for the WFA Global Marketer of the Year, reflects on the key issues marketers have had to address in 2021. We have seven fantastic candidates for WFA Global Marketer of The Year. All of them have demonstrated their excellence while […]
Read MoreVirginia’s recent gubernatorial election put a spotlight on the community, and how its political leanings are being shaped BY MAGGIE PHILLIPS Barely a week after Virginia’s gubernatorial elections in November, campaign signs were still ubiquitous as I traveled in and around Loudoun County. Thanks to controversy around culture wars in its schools, the county—part of D.C.’s northern Virginia […]
Read Moreby Zaid Jilani W. Bradford Wilcox, @BRADWILCOXIFS Wendy Wang, @WENDYRWANG With Jack Dorsey bowing out and Parag Agrawal taking over as CEO of Twitter, Indian immigrants now captain not just Twitter but many of the biggest companies in the tech sector, from Google to Microsoft. In a comment highlighted by many in the Indian press, Tesla CEO Elon Musk picked up on the […]
Read MoreGuest column | Penn should take a toxic episode of Hinduphobia as an opportunity to extend its support to Hindu students and faculty By Suhag Shukla As a resident of Philadelphia, I see the University of Pennsylvania as a beacon of educational excellence and a cultural touchstone for our region. My family and friends were educated […]
Read Moreby Meera S. Kumar A³ (Asian American Authors) Spotlight is a writer interview series created by TMD’s Michigan in Color and Arts sections to spotlight and celebrate Asian American authors. The goal of this series is to feature artists whose content diversifies the landscape of Asian diasporic literature. At the beginning of our phone call, Jyotsna […]
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