A US-based Indian-origin family of four with roots in Hyderabad died Saturday night in a car crash in Green County, Alabama, while returning to Dallas after visiting relatives in Atlanta during the Fourth of July weekend.The victims were identified as Venkat Bejugam, his wife Tejaswini Cholleti and their two children, Siddarth and Mrida Bejugam. A […]
An Indian-origin New Yorker, a critic of Mamdani, said his mother Mira Nair is Hinduphobic. An Indian-origin Hindu woman, Indu Viswanathan, who found New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani‘s glorification after his surprising primary win nauseating, said Mamdani’s mother Mira Nair is Hinduphobic. Viswanathan said in Nair’s movies, the Hindu characters are riddled with prejudice […]
Indian-origin man’s Reddit post on moving back to India from Canada goes viral. A Reddit post of a 25-year-old Indian-origin Canadian citizen has gone viral as he detailed why he wants to come back to India, although he spent only 11 years in India and the majority in Canada. He said he visited India in […]
Social media users said Elon Musk’s America Party has so far no Americans. When Elon Musk announced he would be launching a party for Americans following his fallout with President Donald Trump, critics like Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser, said that Elon Musk himself is not an American. The FEC filing of the party […]
Indian-origin Vaibhav Taneja was listed as the treasurer of Elon Musk’s America Party. Indian-origin Vaibhav Taneja was named the treasurer of the America Party in the paperwork that was filed to create Elon Musk’s America Party. After teasing a new party to break the two-party system of US politics, Elon Musk Sunday announced the creation […]
OpenAI’s high-profile IITian employee quits, to join Meta: Who is Indian-origin researcher Trapit Bansal? OpenAI looses on another high-stakes AI talent, Indian-origin researcher Trapit Bansal has exited OpenAI to join Meta. Bansal, an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, had been with OpenAI since 2022. During his time at […]
Indian-origin author, Danielle D’Souza, wife of GOP leader Brandon Gill, said she never grew up eating rice with her hand. Danielle D’Souza Gill, the Indian-origin wife of Congressman Brandon Gill, said she always used a fork to eat rice and never grew up eating rice with her hands. The statement follows an elaborate controversy that […]
Harmeet Dhillon threatens probe against Zohran Mamdani’s ‘tax the whites’ proposal. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon threatened to investigate Zohran Mamdani over his proposal to tax ‘whiter neighborhoods’ in NYC if he becomes the mayor. “Racial discrimination is illegal in the United States – period. Full stop! The illegal discriminatory scheme described […]
Zohran Mamdani; Arya Rajendran A social media post of Zohran Mamdani, who would be New York City’s first Indian-origin and Muslim mayor if he wins the November mayoral election, is going viral on social media.In December 2020, Mamdani, son of acclaimed Indian-American filmmaker Mira Nair and Indian-origin Ugandan academic Mahmood Mamdani, had retweeted a post […]
US President Donald Trump’s Republicans have gone after Indian-origin Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party nominee for New York City mayor, with some even calling for him to be deported. The 33-year-old, a three-term New York State assemblyman, was born in Uganda and has lived in New York City since 1998, when he was only 7. […]
