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With MAGA-era hostility reshaping narratives around immigration and identity, Indian Americans face a new political reality that demands civic engagement, strategic voting, and a stronger public voice.
Indian immigrants in the United States have found success, and unexpected hostility.Credit...Miraj Patel for The New York Times Supported by By Lydia Polgreen Opinion Columnist, reporting from Sugar Land, Texas It was a joyous day, the fulfillment of a ...
"The old joke was you could not become a CEO in the U.S. if you are Indian," Eric Garcetti, then U.S. ambassador to India, remarked last year during an interview in New Delhi. "Now the joke is you cannot become a CEO in America if you are not Indian.
Indian American couple killed in California crash as fatal accidents continue into 2026, raising urgent road safety concerns.
Much ink has been spilled on Justice Neil Gorsuch’s ardent defense of the rights of American Indians. As legal scholar Ilya Somin noted in 2023, until then “Justice Gorsuch ha[d] never voted against Native American interests in a Supreme Court case.”
(Author’s note: Last fall, I erected a life-size bronze statue at Waterworks Visual Art Gallery here in Salisbury. We have had plenty of positive feedback on the statue but no one has asked about the historic story behind this very powerful Native American.
The first Sikh Gurudwara was established in 1912 by the early immigrant Sikh farmers in Stockton, California. Credit: Wikimedia Commons As World War I loomed in Europe, in California’s San Francisco Bay area an Indian activist named Har Dayal, smeared ...
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