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Saturday, March 25 2023

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...

Raj Echambadi: Indian American iMBA pioneer and first person of color to helm a 131-year-old American university

by Global Indian | Jul 2, 2021

It was like being “forged by fire” says Raj Echambadi as he describes his first tryst with the American academia; he stands to take charge as the 10th president of the illustrious Illinois Institute of Technology. The India-born educator will be the first person of...