IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DESI WORLD
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August 2011 -
A table shows 25 areas in Georgia with the highest percentage of Indian-Americans. Though the city of Atlanta has the most number of Indians, they make up less than 1 percent of the population there. Most of the 20 places where Indians make up over 1 percent of the population are in the greater Atlanta metro area.
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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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July 2011 -
Nilai lives in Atlanta, where he completed seventh grade at The Wesminster Schools.
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July 2011 -
Asteroids were named after both Nathan and Nithin.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
