​By PREM SOURI KISHORE
Awarded  the prestigious Padma Shri in 2015,  by the Government of India, George Hart, professor of Tamil Language at the University of California, Berkeley , is  distinguished for establishing  Tamil as a classical language  and for  his translations of Sangam Literature His devotion, commitment, scholarship  and...

​BY RAJIV DALAL
With over a half million Indian-Americans living in California, the state is home to the largest Indian diaspora community in the United States. And yet, there has never been an Indian-American representative in the California Legislature. I am running for the State Assembly to change that. Like so many others in...

By Danita Dodson
On July 13, 2015, a new era in my life began. Travelling from Tennessee, I arrived in California to attend the Ahimsa Center’s Summer Institute for K-12 teachers. Held at Cal Poly Pomona, Journeys of Nonviolence focused on two champions of nonviolent action for social change, Mohandas K. Gandhi and...

By NAKUL DEV MAHAJAN
I remember standing at the bottom foot of a raised stage at the India Independence Day celebration in Los Angeles in 1983, as two beautifully costumed Bharata Natyam dancers took their place with their ornate braided hair and dramatic eye make-up. An elegant and stunning lady dressed in a green and...

I was posted to Dwarka in Oct. 1963 and was there till the middle of Jun. 1967.   There were two signal units at that particular moment in Dwarka - No. 114 SU and No. 607 SU, where I was posted, along with one DSC Guards unit.  There was a Corporal Swamy (Radar Mechanic) who was trained on that particular radar equipment that were installed onto two big motor vehicles.

BY K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN
Nearly two decades ago, many U.S Corporations moved work mostly IT to India primarily for one reason – COST. It surely made sense, as it had a direct positive impact to the bottom line. While it is true to an extent even today, the reasons are not necessarily the same. In this global economy the success or failure of a company...

By Kalyani Shanmugarajah (As told to Monisha Jayakumar)
Has it really been twenty five years? I look around and sometimes I am awestruck that so much time has passed. To have spent almost three decades surrounded by dance, music and history; to have had hundreds of young students waltzing in and out of my house; to have been so blessed to live a life entrenched...

At a time when the nation is riveted by the horrific happenings in North Charleston where an African-American man was shot at the back by a white police officer, Murali Balaji, PhD, takes a look at the relations between the Indian-American and black communities Twenty years ago, in the aftermath of the O.J. Simpson acquittal and the Million Man March, the chasm between blacks and whites seemed almost irreconcilable.

BY DR. NITIN SHAH
To help was in me from childhood, I was my grandmother’s favorite because I would help in the kitchen and with household chores! My colleagues in college liked me because I would help them with their social issues. Finally, my teachers admired me because I was very creative and came up with innovative ideas for...