Indian-Americans

October 30, 2023

Jessel Taank, Sarita Choudhury, and Prabal Gurung Kick Off N.Y.C. Diwali Season

The Pierre hotel on the Upper East Side sparkled on Saturday night as a group of business and entertainment leaders of South Asian descent, joined by […]
July 18, 2023

Tiny Modern Love Stories: ‘Her Smooth Leg Brushing Mine’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. An Admittedly American Girl 1969. Me, an American girl wanting a Girl Scouts […]
July 3, 2021

How Indian Americans Came to Love the Spelling Bee

Since 2008, a South Asian American child has been named a champion at every Scripps National Spelling Bee. Eighth graders aren’t generally known as dictionary aficionados. […]
March 27, 2020

The Perfect Window for a First Impression

Arian Agrawal and Arjun Naskar had dozens of mutual friends at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Mass., many of them Indian-American like themselves, during the three years they […]
January 21, 2020

A Bollywood Star Takes on a Global Stigma

Deepika Padukone, one of the highest-paid and best-known actresses in Bollywood, can afford to choose her roles carefully and with purpose. With her newest film — […]
October 22, 2019

On Capitol Hill, the Caucus Grows for Diwali

WASHINGTON — For Representative Pramila Jayapal, there was no better party during her childhood in Jakarta, Indonesia, than the one that took place on Diwali, the […]