Giriraj Rao, the food scientist and chemist whose knowledge of spices led him to play an important role in developing recipes for many Coke products including Fresca and Mellow Yellow, and who made America his home for nearly six decades, was among the first to use the phrase, Indian American.
On Sunday morning Eastern US time, four astronauts will zoom into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Commanding the spaceflight is Raja Chari, a United States Air Force colonel.
New York-based Sikh designer and actor Waris Ahluwalia gets recognised for fighting racial discrimination in New York.
Three years after the horrific massacre of Sikh worshippers at the Oak Creek, Wisconsin, gurdwara by a gunman with ties to supremacist organisations, a federal system to help track hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindu, Arab American communities has been formalised.
Generations of Indian Americans have had Arthur first note their feats and recount it to the world. And that is why so many desis across America have been saddened by his passing.
Harvinder S Anand, who graduated as a chemical engineer from Punjab University, Chandigarh, is the president of Royce International, a multi-national corporation.
US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, newly elected co-chair of the influential Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans, discusses her vision for US-India ties with Rediff.com's Monali Sarkar.
Singh and Bhatia were swimming in the lake when a sudden current of water pushed them deeper.
The start of Indian lobbying in the US can be traced back to Pakistan's anti-India lobbying. Policy wonk Ashok Sharma documents this journey and its catalytic role in transforming the US-India relationship.
