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Mimicry? Mockery? Mimic. Cry.

Deepak Sarma | Posted 05.17.2013 | Religion
Deepak Sarma

By performing the play of the pilgrim, does the Indian-American elementary school student inadvertently become the oppressor? Or confirms the oppression? Or conforms to the oppressor?

Why Preserving Ancestral Languages Is Key for Uplifting Immigrant American Communities

Rohit Kumar | Posted 04.23.2013 | Impact
Rohit Kumar

I think that when you know your ancestral language, you can fully understand your culture. You can see that in many spheres, your culture possesses profound wisdom and insight.

Former Wall Street Executive Turns Icing Into An Art Form

Posted 02.27.2013 | MarloThomas

One of the reasons I started my website is that I wanted a place for women to come together and dream. We women need to know that we don't have to ha...

Who I Was and Who I Want to Be -- Indian Americans in Media

Pari Mathur | Posted 04.14.2013 | Media
Pari Mathur

In media, we are portrayed as the self conscious and awkward best friend, tech-support, or the group of people with accents. The reality is, we're not. Growing up and living here in the heart of the Silicon Valley, Indian-Americans run the show

What Indian Americans Can Learn During Black History Month

Rajiv Malhotra | Posted 04.10.2013 | Black Voices
Rajiv Malhotra

The playing field is level enough to advance up to a point, but without the anchor and security of a collective voice, high-achieving Indians will remain the solitary outsiders, easy to bring down. What does all this have to do with African Americans, one might wonder?

They Say

Lena Khan | Posted 02.05.2013 | Impact
Lena Khan

My movie's character is Sami Malik, an Indian who comes to 1970s America on a crazy quest for success and to impress a girl. While the bulk of the film involves his escapades with several misfit roommates, I still put the idea aside. Who wants to see a movie with brown people?

Things This Indian-American From Cleveland Is NOT Thankful For This Thanksgiving Day

Deepak Sarma | Posted 01.21.2013 | Religion
Deepak Sarma

While I am indeed thankful for some things this Thanksgiving Day, such as my family, my job, and so on, there are things I'm NOT thankful for this Thanksgiving Day.

US-India Relations Under the Second Obama Administration

Ronak D. Desai | Posted 01.15.2013 | World
Ronak D. Desai

Obama's enduring popularity within India, close relationship with Manmohan Singh, and widespread support amongst the Indian-American community are just some of the distinctive factors that will help ensure ties with New Delhi remain robust and continue to grow over the next four years.

America The Beautiful: Why A New Politics Is Also A New Religion

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 01.08.2013 | Religion
Vamsee Juluri

What happened this week was not just a diverse group of people finding their hope for their country renewed, but faith in whatever good the divine embodies as well. One might say a lot of prayers were answered this election.

The Wisconsin Sikh Killings and an America Worth Fighting For

Ethan Casey | Posted 10.06.2012 | Politics
Ethan Casey

The movements of half a century ago for civil rights and against the Vietnam War -- at once nonviolent and assertively political -- should have taught us that such an America is worth fighting for.

Rajat Gupta and Dharun Ravi: Two Trials, One Lesson

Sandip Roy | Posted 08.21.2012 | Crime
Sandip Roy

Gupta's supporters will say he took on the government because he was convinced of his own innocence. As was Ravi. But was it a conviction born out of a sense of his own innocence or a hubris born out of wealth and privilege?

The Dharun Ravi Case: Law Upheld, Justice Denied?

Sunil Adam | Posted 05.18.2012 | Crime
Sunil Adam

With the jury's guilty verdict in the so-called Rutgers University webcam spying case, Ravi, it appears, has been turned into the proverbial sacrificial lamb for society's collective guilt about its own bias intimidation against homosexuals.

Is Anti-Hinduism the GOP's New Silver Bullet?

Jonathan_Miller | Posted 01.02.2012 | Politics
Jonathan_Miller

David Williams, Kentucky's GOP nominee for governor, may have finally found the elusive political silver bullet. The State Senate President has hit upon a new campaign theme that might just bring him a stunning, surprise victory: Anti-Hinduism.

No eHarmony With Asian Men

Sunil Adam | Posted 08.08.2011 | World
Sunil Adam

No one would want to be in the shoes of a black man in America. That is a given. Having the highest incarceration and unemployment rates, not to menti...

Confucian V Cartesian

Sunil Adam | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Sunil Adam

The book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, professor at Yale Law School, which sparked much discussion in the media last week, deals with h...

Joel Stein's Beef With Indians Hurts Everyone

Shiwani Srivastava | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Shiwani Srivastava

TIME recently ran a not-so-funny satire characterizing Indians in New Jersey as a model minority run amok. Here's why that's damaging for all immigrants of color.

Indians 'Shocked,' 'Offended' By Joel Stein's TIME Article

Huffington Post | Lindsay Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Joel Stein says he was going for humor in his opinion piece, "My Own Private India," which ran in Monday's TIME Magazine. But the Indian-American comm...

Joel Stein and the Curry Problem

Sandip Roy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Sandip Roy

For Edison, N.J.'s old timers, brown is brown. Too many curry shacks is not that different from too many taquerias. We are all Mexicans now. When Joel Stein goes to Edison, he "feels" what people in Arizona talk about.

Hindu Spelling Whizzes: Why Religion Is Not Destiny

Rob Asghar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Rob Asghar

How are immigrants from a Hindu nation putting the Protestant work ethic to shame, even within spelling bees, the most American of contests?

Meet the Amazing Aroon Shivdasani of NYC's Indo-American Arts Council

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Jim Luce

Indo-American Arts Council founder and executive director Aroon Shivdasani has lived all over the world but has called New York home for about half he...

Mumbai Mess

Gotham Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Gotham Chopra

The sophistication and complexity of the well-coordinated Mumbai attack suggest that whomever was behind these had tremendous resources to plan it over a significant amount of time.

Indian-Americans Track Down Loved Ones In Mumbai

AP | DORIE TURNER | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

ATLANTA — Angela Mulchandami was relieved to see her mother made it aboard a flight from Mumbai to Atlanta Thursday morning. A day earlier, Mum...

Weekly Date With Mic for "Siblings of Doctors" Comic

Naazish YarKhan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Naazish YarKhan

If you are of Indian or Pakistani descent, you know the drill. When you grow up you have to be either a doctor, engineer and lately, a computer programmer. If you're anything else, guess what? You're not worth much.

Jindal Takes Office As First Indian-American Governor

Associated Press | MELINDA DESLATTE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Pledging to make a "clean break with the past" and root out corruption, Republican Bobby Jindal tried to separate himself from politics as usual as he...