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Home for Holidays: Indian Americans Gather With Family and Friends to Celebrate Thanksgiving

It was in 1621, that the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest…

Indian American Ishan Shah Appointed President of New Jersey Leadership Program

The New Jersey Leadership Program (NJ Lead) has recently appointed Ishan Shah as its new…

Indian American Doctor in Wisconsin Sentenced to 54 Months for $13 Million Scheme to Defraud Medicare

An Indian American doctor in Wisconsin was sentenced to 54 months in federal prison for…

Indian American Kishore Kumar Kavuru of Sunnyvale, Calif., Sentenced to 15 Months for Visa Fraud

A California man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for making false statements…

Annadaan and Ahimsa: Indian Americans Get Into the Spirit of Thanksgiving With Hot Meals and Food Drives

What is Thanksgiving without a heaping plate of food? Just the mention of the holiday…

Seduction and Self-expression: Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee’s Cookbook Explores the Social Dimension of Food

Economist and social scientist Abhijit Banerjee has been interested in food ever since he can…

4 South Asian Americans — Shreeya Singh, Varsha Sarveshwar, Trisha N. Prabhu and Devashish Basnet — Among 32 Rhodes Scholars

Three Indian American women — Shreeya Singh, Varsha Sarveshwar, Trisha N. Prabhu — and Nepali…

A Bookworm Who Loves to Talk: 5-year-old Indian American Kiara Kaur Becomes World’s Youngest TEDx Speaker

A 5-year-old Indian American girl has become the world’s youngest TEDx speaker. Kiara Kaur, who…

GOP Lawmaker in Yorktown, N.Y., Resigns After Caught Uttering Racial Slur Against Former Indian American Councilman

A Republican lawmaker in Yorktown, New York, has resigned after he was found using a…

Dr. Anil Nanda, Neurology Head at Rutgers University’s Medical Schools, Placed on Paid Administrative Leave

Dr. Anil Nanda, head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Rutgers University’s two medical schools,…

Kansas Man Sentenced to Life for the 2017 Stabbing Death of Indian American Doctor Achutha Reddy

A Kansas man who stabbed his Indian American doctor to death four years ago has…

Shankar Nagappa Hangud of California Sentenced to Death Without Parole in 2019 Killings of Wife and 3 Children

Shankar Nagappa Hangud of Roseville, California, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility…