IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DESI WORLD

  • Nathan Kondamuri and Nithin Tumma: 'Best of Category' award winners at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

    Nathan Kondamuri and Nithin Tumma: 'Best of Category' award winners at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair July 2011 - Asteroids were named after both Nathan and Nithin.

  • Nilai Sarda: Runner-up in the National Geographic Bee

    Nilai Sarda: Runner-up in the National Geographic Bee July 2011 - Nilai lives in Atlanta, where he completed seventh grade at The Wesminster Schools.

  • India's New Census Figures

    India's New Census Figures July 2011 - First comes the good news. The percentage growth between 2001 and 2011 (17.64) was the lowest decadal increase since independence. Earlier, it was above 21 percent.

  • An American Film Festival with an Indian Accent

    An American Film Festival with an Indian Accent June 2011 - The New York Indian Film Festival, now 11 years old, is not like other high-profile festivals in North America. It has a different accent—or accents, to be precise, since the movies screened in New York last month were in Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Malayalam, Marathi, English, even Tibetan.

  • The son also rises, especially in politics

    The son also rises, especially in politics June 2011 - Favoritism has been around as long as families have existed. In India, the movie industry and the business world—but also professions like law and medicine—are hospitable to the rise of sons (and daughters).

  • A celebration of the Elephanta Caves

    A celebration of the Elephanta Caves June 2011 - Following a two-year hiatus, caused by the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the festival is back on track and drawing visitors to the island of Gharapuri, a seven-mile boat ride from the Gateway of India.

  • Big Jump in Indian-American Business Ownership

    Big Jump in Indian-American Business Ownership June 2011 - Indian-Americans owned 19.9 percent of Asian-owned firms in 2007, according to a recent Survey of Business Owners from the U.S. Census Bureau. And the receipts of these 308,514 firms owned by Indian-Americans came to $152.5 billion, amounting to 30 percent of the total for Asian-American businesses.

  • A Dance Wonder in Down Under

    A Dance Wonder in Down Under May 2011 - A rash of violent, often racist, attacks on students from the subcontinent has diminished the appeal of Australia, especially Melbourne, where many of these incidents took place. Some dubious institutions were shut down, and the number of Indian students going to Australia has dropped.

  • Four Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Prize in 2011

    Four Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 May 2011 - Vijay Vazirani, Ananya Chatterjea, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Arun Agrawal are among the 180 Guggenheim Fellows of 2011. Siddhartha Mukherjee won a Pulitzer Prize for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.

  • Smithsonian's Focus on Indian Americans

    Smithsonian's Focus on Indian Americans May 2011 - One day, in the nation’s capital, will there be a National Museum of the Indian American? Unlikely. But there could well be a National Museum of the Asian American that includes an Indian-American wing.

 

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