January 2007
Academic Stars
More than 8,000 Indian professors are enriching university campuses all across America.
BPO goes to Hollywood
Hollywood film stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been shooting in the western India city of Pune for A Mighty Heart, the story of
Indians: Largest Foreign Student Group in USA
Almost one in 7 foreign student in the United States is Indian, making them the largest foreign student group in the country in 2006, even
Measuring Up
Sorry folks, we don't know how quite to tell you this, but a two-year study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has conclusively
A Touch Of India With Daniel Boulud
He was named America's Outstanding Restaurateur and Best Chef in 2006 by the prestigious James Beard Foundation. In fact, Daniel Boulud is a name gourmands
Man Of The Year
Shekar Ramanuja Sidarth, the University of Virginia senior, who shot to public fame after Republican Sen, George Allen ridiculed him as macaca at a campaign
Nuclear Warmth
Perhaps it took India going nuclear, but Americans seem to be warming up to India. The "Global Thermometer" index by Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, measuring the
Most Difficult Gift
A recent survey found that most Americans found it most difficult to identify an appropriate gift for Dad. Well for Indians, the greatest difficulty is
Can't Cheat On That Check
In what is sure to send shivers down the spine of every college smoocher, three computer science graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University have figured
Vegetarians Are Smarter
This has got to stop. First they said it was the curry, now it's the vegetables that allegedly make you smarter. A study of 8,000 people
The Pizza Twins
Twins have double the fun and surely double the energy - so no wonder Miki and Radha Agrawal, 27, are involved in a dizzying array
Letters
I may not be in the Guinness Book of World Records, but I was elected vice-president of the student government at Nehru Homeopathic Medical College
Jai Hind
About once a month, I get a Jai Hind e-mail from my uncles and aunties in the United States who want to remind the children
