The T(IIT)ans of Silicon Valley

Indian immigrants represent American entrepreneurial force.

January 2007

Deesha is Desi (Now Get Over It)

R&B sensation from the T-Dot talks about a Life Less Ordinary.

December 2006

Spice, Spice Baby

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Born in Mumbai, and educated in Switzerland (at Les Roches), chef Floyd Cardoz has been the force behind New York’s famed restaurant Tabla since it opened in 1998.But for the 43 year-old Goan, it hasn’t always been about providing Manhattanites with high-end New Indian cuisine.
Cardoz’s beginnings were humble. It was in college (while studying to […]

December 2006

Add This to Your Resume: Person of the Year, 2006

Photo courtesy of Time Magazine
By now you’ve heard the news: Time magazine’s Person of the Year is, well, you. Congratulations.
Pick up the issue, now on newsstands and you’ll be greeted with a distorted image of yourself, thanks to the reflective Mylar cover.
Once you get over looking at your face, flip through the magazine—the largest […]

December 2006

Swing Batter-Batter

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You knew he could swing a racket, but a cricket bat?
Roger Federer spent yesterday 100 miles south of Chennai, playing a few rounds of cricket with the displaced children of the Pudupettai rehabilitation colony.
The children have been homeless since the tsunami hit on December 26, 2004.
The tsunami-death toll stands at just under 300,000 […]

December 2006
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Governor’s Family Grows

Photo credit: Daniel Fuhr, Governor’s Office
Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is back from India, where he and wife Mary Kaye finalized their adoption of baby Asha.
Asha spent the first year of her life at the Matru Chhaya orphanage in Nadiad (near Ahmadabad in Gujarat) and now joins her six new siblings in Salt Lake City. […]

December 2006

Get Into The Groove

Photo courtesy of Richa
The countdown to New Year’s Eve has begun—and so has the pressure to find the best bash to help properly ring in 2007.
Those in northern California have plenty of events to choose from. Both the San Jose and Santa Clara Convention Centers (two of the largest in the area) will be hosting […]

December 2006

Christmas Curry

Photo credit: ManjuMalhi.com
Interested in adding some desi flair to your holiday dinner but aren’t sure how?
Well, look no further than British uber-foodie Manju Malhi’s “Festive Recipies.”
Malhi, author of the cookbooks Brit-Spice and India With Passion, walks you through terrific creations like her Roast Turkey Curry and Cranberry Chutney.
Say buh-bye to the dry uninspired Christmas […]

December 2006

It’s a “Thums-Up” From Manmohanji

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UVA scholar, author Harold Gould calls the book his “labor of love.”
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said it is the best thing he has read all year.
Critics have decided it is “vastly important…for desis, for all South Asians in America, to read and savor” (“It is their story; it is their […]

December 2006

Goode Says Some Bad Things

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“I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped.”
So writes Republican […]

December 2006
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