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2020 Miss India America Shriya Boppana Wants to Be Beautiful Inside and Out

Shriya Boppana, an undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, was recently named the winner of…

Autumn in America: What Ails Aging Indian Parents Who Have Come Live With Their Children

The Indian diaspora comprises around 4.8 million people, according to the United States Census Bureau,…

Face Listing: Celebrity Plastic Surgeon Raj Kanodia Slashes Price of his $180 million Mansion in Half

Celebrity plastic surgeon Raj Kanodia, 60, who made a name for himself providing natural-looking fillers and scarless…

Autumn of Their Lives: The Predicament of Aging Parents of Children Away in America

Indian Americans with aging parents in India are sandwiched between their responsibility toward them, their…

Jamdani: The Bewitching Fabric that Symbolizes the Composite Culture of the Indian Subcontinent

It is my endeavor to explore in a series of articles, how Hindu sensibilities intersect…

Indian Americans Gear up for Scaled Down Version of Thanksgiving Holiday

For the past 25 years, the Baichwal family of Wappingers Falls, New York, has been…

Across the U.S. Devotees Hailing from Eastern India and Nepal Celebrate the Festival of Chhath

Hundreds, if not thousands of Indian Americans celebrated the festival of Chhath in different cities…

Dog Puja: A Maryland Hindu Temple Performs Rituals for Man’s Best Friend, Aarti, Et.al

With the upcoming Diwali festival, let’s not forget our furry family members as we celebrate.…

So What If My Friends Have a Different Definition of Success Than I? Don’t We All Succeed?

My answer when anyone would ask me if I was successful, would be a predictable…

The Undeterred: Desis Across America Go Trick or Treating on Halloween 2020

They dressed up — young and old and the in-betweens — and joined socially-distanced Halloween…

Diwali v. Halloween: The Spooky Competition in Our Indian American Home

The end of October brings with it an identity crisis for many Indian Americans. Halloween…

Women Priests Perform Durga Puja to Correct the Gender Imbalance in the Worship of Shakti

Navaratri, the nine-day long festival to celebrate the goddess Durga, started on October 17th. It…