Ansu Philip says her beautiful, compassionate daughter, who had a great sense of humour, was nothing like the investigations, and the media, made her out to be. "People made up stories; there was nothing we could do to stop them," she says.
Sukhbir Channa, a 24-year-old Sikh musician, has filed a $1 million class action complaint against Walt Disney World.The lawsuit, filed in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court in Hillsborough County, Florida, claims that Channa was denied employment despite being qualified for the job because of the 'look problem' a reference to his turban and beard.
In New York State, there were 112,308 people living with HIV/AIDS at the end of 2005. Asian and Pacific Islanders represent one per cent of this population.
For centuries, Jewish women along the Malabar Coast filled notebooks with Jewish-themed songs in Malayalam and Hebrew. Recently, a series of programs, including scholarly discussions, music and dance and a book exhibition in Washington, DC, attempted to revive that musical heritage.
According to the American Diabetes Association, 20.8 million people in the United States have diabetes. Compared to other populations, people of Indian origin are at a heightened risk for Type 2 diabetes. In 2007, India had the largest number of people -- 40.9 million -- living with diabetes, according to the International Diabetes Federation.
While doctors trained in Western medicine rely on a host of tests to diagnose patients' ailments, Pankaj Naram depends only on one tool -- the pulse. The pulse, most commonly felt at the wrist or the neck, is the throbbing of arteries caused by the heart's contractions. There are 350 variations of it, says Naram, an Ayurvedic physician who spent more than five years (2,000 days, he says, more precisely) studying pulse-reading under his guru Baba Ramdas about 30 years ago.
The event, organized by the Jeeyar Educational Trust's New Jersey chapter in Monmouth Junction, commemorated World Cancer Day -- February 4.
This is the first time a state has translated voter material in a South Asian language.
Penn was working on his computer while the television played in the background. The Democratic National Convention was on. Something made him look up. "It was Senator Obama's keynote, and he said: Especially after 9/11, we should not be divided between blue states and red states. We should be focused on being the United States," Penn said. After the address was over, Penn wondered, like many others, when Obama would run for president.
On being sworn in as a member of the Edison Township Council on New Year's Day, Dr Sudhanshu Prasad chose to take the oath of office on the Bhagwad Gita, a philosophical discourse that is set within the larger frame of the religious epic Mahabharat. Dr Prasad said he chose the Gita because he grew up believing in it, and it is "where my conscience is," he said.
'I think the world is getting a little tired of the black and the brown and just wearing track suits and T-shirts,' she said.
The documentary Divided We Fall looks into the violence the Sikh community faced after 9/11.
Meet the Indian American comics spreading that funny feeling. A series of portraits.
Meet the Indian-American comics spreading that funny feeling. This week: Dan Nainan.
Meet the Indian-American comics spreading that funny feeling. A series of portraits.
They are the subject of a battle between immigrant rights advocates and Signal International, a marine and fabrication company.
Earlier, immigration regulations had set a more stringent standard on the maximum time in H or L status, whether as a worker or an employee.
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