Desi World
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DESI WORLD
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Desi Tweets for July
July 2011 -
Other June deaths: Journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, who was shot by underworld goons; politician Bhajan Lal; Nataraja Ramakrishna, dance exponent.
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Sukanya Roy: 2011 National Spelling Bee Champion
July 2011 -
Sukanya, who speaks fluent Bengali, visits India every summer— although this year she went to Panama to study its rainforests.
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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.
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Nilai Sarda: Runner-up in the National Geographic Bee
July 2011 -
Nilai lives in Atlanta, where he completed seventh grade at The Wesminster Schools.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
