When I took a lead acting role in IFC’s three-part TV miniseries BOLLYWOOD HERO with Chris Kattan and Julian Sands, it was my first experience of Hollywood.

Native Americans have often held members of the LGBTQ+ family in high regard, and the most common term to define gender-fluid people today is to refer to them as ‘Two-Spirit’ people.

Jyoti Rajan Gopal, a children’s book author, recently published a book titled My Paati’s Saris. In the interview below, she told us about her inspirations for the book, and for her writing in general.

The role of Indian-Americans is often neglected when it comes to the LGBTQ movement in the US, despite the significant presence of the diaspora and India’s rich history of LGBTQ acceptance.

The optimal relationship between the public sector and civil society—and more specifically, between government and charitable organizations often called nongovernment organizations or NGOs—has been analyzed and debated extensively, both in the United States, in India, and beyond.

The trend towards effective altruism argues for a high level of monitoring and evaluation, and backing charitable dollars with hard data analytics that conveys high impact.

“He had no idea how strong he was,” Mathew says, his eyes shining. Mathew, a football coach, activist, and businessman from Kerala, was then recruiting players for the blind football team of India.

When Indiaspora member Vinita Belani founded Enacte Arts in 2013 to bring Jean-Claude Carriere’s legendary re-telling of the Mahabharata to American audiences, she established a fundamental principle that has guided the theater company ever since: reimagine the canon of South Asian stories in a universal context.

The Shehnai Virtuoso and Other Stories by Dhumketu, translated from Gujarati into English by Jenny Bhatt, is the first book-length translation from Gujarati to English published in the US, despite the large population of Gujarati diaspora in the country.

When most of us think of children without families, we visualize young children (adorable and heart-wrenching) living in some kind of institutional care. We see the need to give them good options for shelter and education, but don’t give a thought to what happens to them as they grow into teenagers and young adults.

As I look back at my comedy calendar for June, it feels surreal and funny that I’m a stand up comedian. You don’t see a lot of people like me in comedy. An Indian immigrant woman, who is queer, and works in the tech industry, and has two cats.

Mark Twain famously called India the mother of history and the grandmother of legend. Yet when we talk of the Indian independence movement, which spans hundreds of years, we think of Gandhi, Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh, and the like. We think of men.

When Anjali Kour’s husband abandoned her in India in 2017 after a 15-year abusive marriage, she lost everything – her home, her finances, and her child.

Who would have thought that we would embark on such a journey! As we ventured the SunPedal Ride in the United States of America, Luis and I considered ourselves lucky to be a part of this unique solar and human powered journey covering a whopping 7000+ miles on electric bicycles.

Meherwan Irani is a chef and restaurateur changing the perception of Indian food in America through his growing restaurant and spice empire – Chai Pani Restaurant Group (which owns 6 restaurants and Spicewalla brand). Irani was named by TIME Magazine as one of the “31 People Changing The South” in 2018, and his Asheville restaurant won “Outstanding Restaurant” by the James Beard Foundation in June 2022.