Many years ago in West Bengal, I encountered school-age boys playing Carrom or cricket all day. Curious as to why they weren’t at school or out working, they responded: “We are all employed. We do ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi walks on the stage with then-U.S. President Donald Trump to address a crowd of 50,000 people of Indian origin at the ‘Howdy Modi’ event in Houston, Texas, September ...
On a stifling April afternoon in Ajmer, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, local politician Shakti Singh Rathore sat down in front of a greenscreen to shoot a short video. He looked nervous. It was his ...
On a recent Sunday afternoon, Vineeta Gupta hosted 20 Indian American women at her home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Fueled by chana masala, naan and rice pudding, they wrote hundreds of postcards in ...
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By Sarita Chaganti Singh and Krishna N. Das AMARAVATI, India (Reuters) -A 42-year-old MBA from Stanford is becoming the go-to person for multinationals looking to invest in India, leveraging his party ...
1989 School of Arts and Sciences graduate Eswaran Sridharan, director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India in New Delhi, led a seminar at CASI’s Penn campus counterpart this week discussing ...
MUMBAI, May 14 (Reuters) - More than half of India's lawmakers running for re-election to parliament reported a 300 percent increase in their assets since the last ballot five years ago, a survey ...
In 1960, 12,000 Indian immigrants were in the U.S. Now there are 5 million. In 1960, there were 12,000 Indian immigrants in the country. Now there are 5 million, according to census data. In a ...
The religious bigotry struck at the heart of India’s secular democratic foundation and the constitutional values.
As a high-achieving group with an iron-clad will set on actualizing the American dream, it was only a matter of time before Indian Americans became politically active en masse. There’s Bobby Jindal, ...
For nearly a century, Bollywood has held a mirror to Indian society, the plotlines of the world’s most prolific movie industry reflecting the changing tides of a vast, developing nation. India’s ...