Dr. Dilnawaz Rumi, a member of the medical team of HRH Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, the then Crown Prince, was not even 30 when he started working at the royal palace. Now, 25 years later, despite the death of… Read more

The dreaded call came at 3:45 am. I jumped; my heart began to race and thud at the same time. I groped for my phone in the dark. “He had another stroke today and is back in the ICU,” said… Read more

As Silicon Valley founders of a metaverse app with nearly 3 million users, we, like so many others, have been following the rise of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and web3. While there has been an increased presence of Indian founders and… Read more

Given the number of fantastic reads that have been recently published by Indian diaspora leaders, we felt compelled to create this page to serve as a resource of several books that are out this month, recently out, or will be… Read more

I had always seen myself as a writer and a historian, with no more than a peripheral interest in contemporary art, mainly because I never had the opportunity to delve into it deeply enough to understand its abstract complexities.  That… Read more

Although various media formats proliferate airways, and would therefore seem to heighten awareness regarding the challenges that people of color face in every corner of the globe, Black History Month 2022 and the 24 months that preceded it remind us… Read more

In The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, Charlie Munger—Warren Buffet’s long-standing business partner—brilliantly describes the man-with-a-hammer-tendency as follows: ‘to a man with only a hammer, every problem looks pretty much like a nail’. Indeed, we all tend to look at the… Read more

Climate Change is one of the biggest challenges facing our world today, spurring the call for global collaborations to tackle this crisis.  The recent launch of the U.S.-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 partnership reiterated the commitment of both… Read more

With a population of 17.5 million, the Netherlands is home to about a quarter-million people of Indian origin, the largest Indian diaspora community in Europe after the United Kingdom. This includes approximately 200,000 Indo-Surinamese. The Indian community, the fastest-growing group… Read more

Her name was Shibani Das and she was not quite 2 years old. Her hair had all been shaved off because of lice, and she weighed almost nothing, just skin, bones, and beautiful eyes.  I was in India for the… Read more