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Another Profile in Courage: MIT’s Megha Vemuri Banned From Commencement Ceremony for Advocating Free Palestine

As graduation season swept across American universities in 2024 and 2025, a new generation of…

The Real Comeback Kid: Last Year’s Runner-Up Faizan Zaki Wins 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee Championship

Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old seventh-grader from Dallas, Texas, won the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee…

Indian ‘Immigrant’ Delivers Harvard Commencement Speech Attacking Trump’s ‘Cascade of Draconian Measures’

At Harvard’s 2025 commencement ceremony, the choice of speaker carried profound symbolic weight. Abraham Verghese,…

Indian American Spellers Standout as The Scripps National Spelling Bee Celebrates its Centennial

On June 17, 1925, eleven-year-old Frank Neuhauser stood before a modest audience and spelled out…

Baraat of Megabucks: Indian Couple’s Extravagant Celebration Reflects Growing Trend of Luxury South Asian Weddings

Manhattan’s Financial District came to a standstill Saturday as an Indian couple’s elaborate wedding parade…

How Usha Vance Finds Her Fashion Voice: The Emerging Public Profile of the Second Lady

Since becoming Second Lady of the United States in January 2025, Usha Vance has navigated…

The MAGA Makeover of Vani Hari: From ‘One of the Sexiest Democrats in Charlotte, N.C., Into the Taylor Swift of the MAHA Moms’

In the grand hall of the Department of Health and Human Services last month, Vani…

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (1938-2025): Visionary Astrophysicist, Science Communicator, and Institution Builder

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, one of India’s most distinguished astrophysicists whose groundbreaking theoretical work and institutional…

Breaking Barriers: Kannada Writer Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’ Makes History Winning International Booker Prize

In a groundbreaking literary achievement, 77-year-old Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp” has become the…

A Forgotten Superpower: William Dalrymple’s ‘The Golden Road’ Unearths Ancient India’s Global Legacy

William Dalrymple’s ambitious new work, “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World,” recently…

The Gene Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Kiran Musunuru’s Race to Save a Baby With a Rare Genetic Disorder Affecting One in a Million

In the predawn hours of a February morning in 2025, Dr. Kiran Musunuru stood anxiously…

Who’s Afraid of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem? Certainly Not Priya Saxena

In what many observers are calling a moment of poetic justice, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi…