Yogendra Puranik became Japan’s first Indian-origin politician. Here’s how

by Global Indian | Jul 21, 2021

(July 21, 2021; 5.30 pm) Back in 2016, Tokyo’s Edogawa ward was contemplating the creation of a Singapore-like Little India in Nishikasai, an area that boasts a sizeable Indian population. A banker, Yogendra Puranik was the only Indian from a professional background...

EXCLUSIVE: Scientist, innovator, TEDx speaker, trainee pilot – how teenage prodigy Gitanjali Rao is raising the bar

by Suruchi Kapoor Gomes | Jul 21, 2021

GLOBAL INDIAN EXCLUSIVE “I know a lot of people say that kids are the future, but I want to spread the message that we are here now, and we can make a difference.” – 11-year-old Gitanjali Rao in 2017 Meet Indian American teen scientist and TIME’s First Kid of...

Child Vaccination: How COVID-19 is undoing years of good in India

by Global Indian | Jul 20, 2021

UNICEF data shows 23 million children missed out on childhood vaccines in India last year, the highest number since 2009 and 3.7 million more than in 2019, due to COVID-19. At 3 million, India has the highest number of under-vaccinated or unvaccinated children...

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by Global Indian | Jul 19, 2021

Meet Sanjal Gavande, the Marathi engineer who’s part of Jeff Bezos’ space travel project

by Global Indian | Jul 19, 2021

(July 19, 2021; 3 pm) The space tourism race is truly heating up: Come July 20, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will take off on board Blue Origin’s rocket system New Shepard. All eyes are now set on the Indian systems engineer at the commercial space flight company who’s...