Amruta Kulkarni of Foster City, California is taking one day at a time. Working from home and having kids at home as well, has been tough for her. Although the preschool for her 3-year-old opened up limited spots, Kulkarni says they chose to keep her home to let the families where parents need to go to work take those spots.
Layoffs are increasing almost daily as businesses are made to shut down because of the deadly infection, prompting people to seek unemployment benefits. Blue-collar employees, including domestic workers, food and hospitality workers, home health aides, taxi drivers and nail and hair salon industry workers, many of whom are South Asians, are desperately looking for financial help from any quarter possible to be able to put food on the table and save their families.
Several Indian Americans are among top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2020, the Society for Science & the Public announced on Jan. 8.
Last year, Corporal Mithil Patel, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, was hit by an out-of-control car on I-95 in Martin County as he was saving a man’s life.
When the results came in on November 7th, 2017, telling me I’d been elected to lead the City of Hoboken in New Jersey, I cannot possibly express the sense of honor I felt. Knowing I’d get the opportunity to serve the city I loved so much was an exciting and humbling experience.
On a flight home from Mexico a couple of years ago, Silicon Valley-based academic and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa felt a shooting pain in his left arm. Wadhwa, then 45, did not feel much concerned as he had never been sick in a decade, but on arrival when he went to the University of North Carolina Medical Center for a checkup, he learnt he suffered a heart attack.
Los Angeles-based Dhaliwal, who has been diving her truck as an independent operator for the last three years, is believed to be among fewer than a dozen Sikh women truck drivers in the U.S. who sit behind the wheel regularly for a living. Dhaliwal, 29, says she “really loves” her job and feels thankful to herself for deciding to join the profession.
The White House has hastily scheduled a Diwali ceremony – set for Tuesday, Nov. 13 – in response to publication last week of a cover story in India Abroad reporting that for the first time in 15 years, the administration would not host a ceremony marking the Festival of Lights.
The Hamptons have gotten a lot hotter thanks to Padma Lakshmi. The chef, model and actress, was recently spotted in a below-knee floral dress. And as usual, she sizzled.
The Shirdi Saibaba Temple in Flushing, New York , the oldest house of worship in the U.S. for the revered saint, took out a palanquin procession July 28, marking the culmination of weeklong Guru Purnima celebrations.
