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India Giving Day Promotes Indian American Engagement in Diaspora Philanthropy
Organizers and donors are currently preparing for India Giving Day on March 2, 2023. In a recent article in The Conversation, I described this first ever effort in the U.S. as diaspora philanthropy.
The Black & Desi Solidarity Stories We Forgot: A Look at Anirvan Chatterjee’s Work
Years before Mahatma Gandhi’s principle of ‘ahimsa’ (nonviolence) influenced the American civil rights movement, Swami Vivekananda made several condemnatory observations about racial injustice in the US during his 1893 visit to the country. Some decades later, author and filmmaker KA Abbas voiced support for the African American fight for equality at a New York conference in 1938 and went on to explore racial injustice in some of his work as well.
South Asia and the Institute: Transformative Connections
I attended MIT in the 1980’s and as my parents had emigrated to the US in the 1960’s I was in the early trickle of second generation students at the Institute at the time.
India Giving Day Interview: Akanksha Education Fund & Pratham USA
The following interview of Akanksha Education Fund Executive Director Sejal Desai and Pratham USA CEO and Global Executive Manisha Bharti was conducted by India Philanthropy Alliance Executive Director Alex Counts in early February 2023.
Acing the Diplomatic Mission
The United States has not had an ambassador in New Delhi for a little over two years now, from the time Kenneth Juster packed up from Roosevelt House on January 20, 2021, when there was a change of guard at the White House. It is the longest stretch New Delhi has been without a US ambassador.
The Next 1,000 Years of Sanskrit
As we reflect on 2022 and dive into 2023, I’d like to invite the Indiaspora community to take a moment and contemplate something out of the ordinary. I’d like you to think about preserving the world’s Sanskrit heritage for the next 1,000 years.
100 Years Later, Embracing Our Legacy of Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind
One hundred years ago, in 1923, the Supreme Court took away American citizenship from an extraordinary man named Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind.
American Girl, raised on promise
There are many ways to measure the success of an ethnic group or racial group in immigrant America, and by several metrics, Indian-Americans top the list.
India and Faraway Lands: 5,000 Years of Connected History
The recent publishing of my book India and Faraway Lands: 5,000 Years of Connected History marked the culmination of my long-standing quest for understanding India’s past in a wider global context.
Save the Shekhawati Frescoes: A Call to Fund an International Conservation Workshop in Rajasthan, India
India is altogether history, spirituality, diversity, food, colors, perfume, festivals, craftsmanship, authentic and stunning materials, traditions and high level modernization.