Nilu Gupta: The recipient of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman is keeping Hindi alive in California

by Amrita Priya | Feb 5, 2023

(February 5, 2023) Hindi stands tall as one of the significant identities of India’s heritage, and Nilu Gupta, the California-based Indian-origin professor is an ardent proponent of it. As a US resident for the last 25 years she has made great initiatives to preserve...

AC Charania: NASA’s newly appointed chief technologist  

by Amrita Priya | Jan 21, 2023

(January 21, 2023) “An exciting time to be at NASA as the agency along with industry prepare to return crews to the moon,” tweeted AC Charania, eleven days after he assumed office as NASA’s new chief technologist. He also posted a link to the upcoming Artemis III...

Meet Krishna Vavilala, the winner of US Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award 2022

by Amrita Priya | Dec 28, 2022

(December 28, 2022) When AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism of the United States government, called up Krishna Vavilala informing that he has been selected for the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award 2022, the long-time Houstonian...

Padma Bhushan Madhur Jaffrey: The lady who made Indian cuisine global

by Amrita Priya | Dec 11, 2022

(December 11, 2022) “When my programme came on air, there weren’t any Indian cookery shows, it was an immediate hit,” Madhur Jaffrey told the BBC, talking about her ground breaking cookery programme that premiered in the United Kingdom 40 years ago.   The Padma...

Indian-origin Google CEO Sundar Pichai receives Padma Bhushan

by Amrita Priya | Dec 4, 2022

(December 4, 2022) “India is a part of me and I carry it with me wherever I go,” Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said after receiving the Padma Bhushan award from the Indian envoy to the US. The Indian-origin CEO is among the 17 others who have been bestowed...