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From Raja Sweets to Mahatma Gandhi District: Yogi Bhai’s vision for Houston’s Little India

by Amrita Priya | Sep 11, 2024

(September 11, 2024) Had Joginder Singh Gahunia been alive, he would have turned 80 this year. Though he passed away in 2002, he left behind a sweet legacy — Raja Sweets, the oldest North Indian fast-food restaurant and sweet shop in Houston. Almost every Houstonian...

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...