Browsing: Indian Americans

We hear of Indian-American success stories but there are other stories to be told too. So many forgotten immigrants labor in low-paying, thankless jobs: essential workers, restaurant staff, nannies and nail salon workers. The pandemic tightened the screws further as so many found their lifeline receding with loss of jobs, home schooling of children and the inability to pay rent or the grocery bills.

Intercultural Marriages are Becoming More Common – “I think the combination of two different backgrounds offers a unique insight in life, the hard working immigrant story mixed with the confidence of belonging.   I also think intercultural children are generally better looking!”

Who are the Indian-Americans? A new study ‘Social Realities of Indian-Americans’ tells you a lot that you may have not known.

If you grew up in India you will remember the magic of myths and folklore which was passed on to you by your grandparents, loving aunts and grand-aunts and their loquacious  helpers. There were stories for all occasions: stories at meal-time, stories at bed-time and even stories for monsoon evenings. Stories for sad times, and stories for happy times.

As you grew up and left home, either for further studies, to find work or to get married, you haphazardly packed these childhood tales into your suitcases, in-between the spice boxes and the photo albums and the clothes. And then you forgot about them. Until you yourself became a parent – in a new land, in uncharted waters.

There are scores of groups coming together to bring the Biden-Harris ticket to the White House. Besides AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islanders) there are several power players like Indiaspora, AAPI Victory Fund, Indian American Impact Fund and South Asians for Biden, and Indian National Council for Biden.

As in much of the world, life is on hold in America, held hostage by the deadly Coronavirus pandemic. In this fast moving news cycle, the figures keep changing and new developments are taking place all over the world.

You could call them some of the most desirable voters in America that any political party would love to have in their ranks. Indeed, Indian-Americans seem to be in all 50 states and are strong players in the American political scene.So how is this viable block of American citizens going to vote in the upcoming presidential elections? Will they vote for a Democrat in the White House or four more years for Donald J. Trump?

As a journalist, I’ve always been intrigued by the unique experiences, sights and sounds of individual lives, a billion stories waiting to be told. Immigrants who’ve traveled to a new country always have their idiosyncratic cache of memories, of a past which belongs only to themselves.