Family

The Indian American Dream: By Putting Family and Education First, Indian Americans Rise

by Zaid Jilani W. Bradford Wilcox, @BRADWILCOXIFS Wendy Wang, @WENDYRWANG With Jack Dorsey bowing out and Parag Agrawal taking over as CEO of Twitter, Indian…

A³ Spotlight: Jyotsna Sreenivasan asks what Indian parents can give to their American children

by Meera S. Kumar A³ (Asian American Authors) Spotlight is a writer interview series created by TMD’s Michigan in Color and…

Rocket Science: Indian American Parents Struggle to Figure Out How to School Their Kids

By Anu Ghosh To go virtual or not, that is the question plaguing school districts across the 50 states. With…

The Joys and Challenges of Parenting Under Lockdown

by Bhargavi Kulkarni Mira Reddy has a busy day. She has to wake up at 7 am, get dressed, eat…

When Couples Adopt from India – meet an Indian-American Family

BY LAVINA MELWANI Back in 2010 I had done an extensive story on adopting children from India. The story seemed to…

What’s Behind My Mother’s Obsession with Food?

by Jaya Padmanabhan “What did you eat today?” my mother, Sarada, begins her phone conversation with my twenty-three-year-old daughter in New…

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,…