IT'S CHAI TIME
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Desi Brewers: ‘We Are More Than Just Curry!”
August 2021 - Almost 9,000 craft breweries operate in North America, and some are owned by people of South Asian origin. Writer Ruhani De Silva has put the spotlight on five that are “making their presence known in the beer world.”
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Honing the Talent of Memorizing
August 2021 - Priyanka Shukla, an IAS officer from Chhattisgarh, recently shared a video of a smart 2-year-old named Praneena. In the video, Praneena is asked to name the capital cities of a few dozen countries and does so correctly.
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Good Sports: Golfer Gets A Break— From Calculus Homework
July 2021 - Megha Ganne will always remember the summer before her senior year of high school and the performance that made headlines in the sports world.
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Good Sports: Chhetri Passes Messi in International Goals
July 2021 - India’s soccer team has been eliminated from qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, managing only one victory in seven group matches.
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Fast-Acting Train Operator Saves Life
July 2021 - It was yet another case of anti-Asian violence: a 35-year-old Asian-American man was pushed onto the subway tracks on May 24 while waiting for a train in Long Island City, New York.
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QUOTA of QUOTES
July 2021 - Quotes by Jilly Gokalgandhi, who recently won a seat on the Milwaukee School Board/ Nishant Joshi, who was sworn in June 7 as the new police chief of Alameda, California/ Kriti Sarav, 16, a tennis-playing student at University of Chicago Laboratory School/ Dr. Swaiman Singh, a cardiologist from New Jersey.
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DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN?
July 2021 - How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
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Fun Time: Consider All The Factors Before Getting A Divorce
July 2021 - Bill and Melinda Gates announced recently that they are getting divorced after 27 years of marriage.
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“Bench and Switch” Scheme Brings H-1B Workers from India
July 2021 - It’s no secret that the H-1B visa program is vulnerable to abuse. One of the more blatant examples of this was perpetrated by Cloudgen, a Houston, Texas-based consulting and strategic solutions company.
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Indian Forestry Officials Monitor Tiger’s Journey to Bangladesh
July 2021 - Indian Forestry Services officer Parveen Kaswan recently shared a photo of a tiger that had crossed the border in the Sundarbans.