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Part 5 of The Crossing. For a generation, the crossing ran one way - out of India, toward a Western degree and the life that followed. Now a growing number are making the return journey, pulled by a rising India and pushed by a West that has grown colder. This is the crossing back.
Part 5 of The Diaspora Plate. Butter chicken, garlic naan, a steam-table lunch buffet and a framed photo of the Taj Mahal - for millions of Americans, this was India. The story of how a standardised menu conquered the United States, and how a new generation of chefs is now tearing it up.
Part 5 of The Living Gurus. A gold-medal electronics engineer who traded circuits for the soul, BK Shivani turned the Brahma Kumaris' quiet philosophy into a global television and YouTube phenomenon - and became, for millions of stressed Indians at home and abroad, the steadying voice at the end of a hard day.
The first person of Indian descent to reach the US vice-presidency owed her path, by her own account, to a 19-year-old from Madras who crossed the world alone to become a scientist.
The State Department's July visa bulletin marks both EB-2 and EB-5 'unavailable' to Indian applicants for the rest of the fiscal year. For a queue already measured in decades, it means no new approvals until at least 1 October.
Judge Leo Sorokin ruled the fee an unlawful tax. Indians hold most H-1B visas, so the decision lands hardest here — but the administration is already appealing, and the squeeze on green cards and visa appointments hasn't let up.
The squeeze on H-1B visa stamping has deepened: appointment inventory at US consulates in India is full through 2026, the interview-waiver 'dropbox' is gone, and lawyers are warning workers not to leave the US just to get stamped.
The Indian-American presence in American science was underscored again as four researchers of Indian origin made the 2026 class of Sloan Research Fellows — one of the most coveted early-career honours in the field.
Part 9 of The Masters Who Crossed the Ocean. A doctor who renounced medicine to write 200 books and train the teachers who carried yoga across the world — the hidden hub of the whole story.
Part 10 of The Masters Who Crossed the Ocean. In orange robes before half a million young Americans, he opened the Woodstock festival — the most improbable pulpit an Indian master ever stood at.
Part 6 of The Masters Who Crossed the Ocean. He arrived in New York in 1965 at sixty-nine, with seven dollars and a trunk of his own books — and within a decade had founded a worldwide religion.
Part 11 of The Masters Who Crossed the Ocean. He never came west, gave no lectures, and left almost no record of his life — yet through the Americans who sat with him, he may have shaped Western spirituality more intimately than any guru in this series.
Part 4 of The Masters Who Crossed the Ocean. A child so ill that doctors doubted he would survive grew into the man Time called one of the 100 most influential people alive — and turned his guru's discipline into the world's most-practised yoga.
Part 1 of Temples of the Diaspora. In the fields of central New Jersey, a hand-carved stone mandir the size of a cathedral announced that the Indian diaspora in America had come of age.
Part 1 of The Crossing. For decades the answer was America. In 2026, with US student-visa refusals near record highs, the world's largest cohort of outbound students is redrawing its map.
Part 2 of The Masters Who Crossed the Ocean. Born in Gorakhpur in 1893 and educated at Scottish Church College and Serampore College, the young monk sailed to Boston in 1920 and stayed for three decades, dying in Los Angeles in 1952. His Autobiography of a Yogi became the West's doorway into Indian spirituality.
Part 1 of The Masters Who Crossed the Ocean. On 11 September 1893, an unknown Bengali monk walked onto a Chicago stage and began, 'Sisters and brothers of America.' The ovation that followed marked the moment India's spiritual tradition went global.
The theme for the 12th International Day of Yoga on 21 June is 'Yoga for Healthy Ageing'. Ahead of it, the Indian Embassy holds a session at Washington's Lincoln Memorial on 19 June, with a flagship celebration in Times Square on 21 June.
US F-1 student-visa refusals for Indian applicants rose from 23% in 2015 to about 61% in 2025, even as European applicants faced roughly 9%. The gap is pushing Indian students toward Germany, Ireland and Canada's graduate routes.
A June essay by matchmaker Lakshmi Nagasamudra argues the big matrimony platforms won over the immigrant generation but are losing their children — who distrust profiles in an age of fakes and AI-generated content.
The IOM's World Migration Report 2026 confirms India received about $138 billion in remittances in 2024 — the most of any country, and nearly double second-placed Mexico — underscoring the diaspora's economic weight.
The 2026 Grammy season made it impossible to ignore. Across Best New Artist, Best Pop Duo, Best Global Music Album, Best Global Music Performance, and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album — five different categories — Indian-origin singers and musicians weren't just present. They were the conversation.
Total H-1B registrations fell from 343,981 in FY 2026 to 211,600 in FY 2027 — the steepest year-on-year drop in the programme's history. Indian-origin workers, who account for roughly 71% of approvals, take the brunt.
A USCIS Policy Memorandum issued on 21 May 2026 stipulates that aliens in the United States temporarily seeking permanent residence must return to their home country to apply, except in extraordinary circumstances. The change disproportionately affects Indian H-1B and L-1 holders.
A growing number of diaspora families are quietly moving back. The plane is the easy part. The actual return runs through tax-residency arithmetic, customs paperwork at Nhava Sheva, banking accounts that have to be redesignated on a clock, and a hundred small adjustments nobody warns you about. This is the practical map.
Texas housing markets that depended on Indian-American H-1B buyers for cash-purchase demand are cooling sharply through 2026, as the new H-1B fee regime and registration drop reduce the pipeline of work-authorised Indian-origin home buyers.
Indian study permits to Canada have collapsed from 188,715 in 2024 to 94,605 in 2025 — a 50 per cent drop in a single year. The approval rate for Indian applicants fell from 81 per cent to 28 per cent. Brampton's agent economy is folding; families in Punjab and Andhra are reassessing; the Canadian dream that Indian families spent two decades constructing is being quietly dismantled. This is what the data shows, and what it does not.
An OCI pays Indian tax on Indian-source income — rent, interest, capital gains — under residency rules that tightened again on 1 April 2026. The TDS regime, DTAA relief, TCS on outbound money, and the traps, explained.
Diaspora remittances to India climbed 14% year-on-year to US$135.46 billion, with the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia driving the growth.
On 6 September 2026, the AMARA Hall of Fame Awards became the first Indian and Indo-US-centric awards platform to be staged at New York's David Geffen Hall.
New research from ORF finds domestic Indian founders are now outperforming returnee NRI founders in fundraising — reversing the historic Silicon Valley-fed pattern.
A wage-weighted lottery, a US$100,000 petition fee, and a Congressional bill calling for a 3-year pause: the H-1B is in the middle of its biggest overhaul in a generation.
If he wins, Vivek Ramaswamy would become the first Indian-American governor of Ohio — and the first Hindu governor in United States history.
The United Kingdom's House of Commons now includes 26 members of Parliament of Indian descent — a 73% increase since 2015, reflecting the community's steady political ascent in Westminster.
Adobe's Shantanu Narayen — one of the longest-serving Indian-American Silicon Valley CEOs — has announced a transition out of the role after 18 years at the company's helm.
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, along with his sons Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash, won a 2026 Grammy as composers on 'Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama'.
Indian-American filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir — a multiple Emmy and Peabody Award winner — picked up two nominations at the 2026 Academy Awards.
New Zealand's revised 2026 student visa framework adds a 25-hour-per-week work limit, post-study work pathways, and new skilled-migrant entries — positioning the country as a quieter alternative to the harder-to-access US/UK routes.
The number of Indian students in Ireland has climbed from 700 to over 9,000 over the past decade. The 2026 GOI-IES scholarship cycle opened on 29 January.
Mumbai | 15 May 2026 For Indians living abroad, the search for an authentic taste of home rarely ends. The right kaju, the right kishmish, the right kulfi-style ice cream — these things matter in a way that’s hard to explain to anyone who hasn’t packed a suitcase full of dry fruits before a flight […]
The identity question is no longer a crisis — it’s a superpower For decades, young Indians growing up abroad were caught in an exhausting loop: too Indian at school, not Indian enough at home. The cultural tug-of-war that defined their parents’ immigrant experience was supposed to ease with time. For Gen Z, it has done
If you or someone you know has been quietly Googling hair transplants abroad — and wondering whether it makes sense to combine a trip home with treatment — this story is for you. Picture this: a man boards a flight from Manchester to Mumbai, not for a wedding or a family visit, but for a hair […]
The Edison wedding The Patel wedding I went to in Edison last summer had 1,400 guests, two days of pre-events, a sangeet rehearsed by a choreographer who flies in from Mumbai, and a baraat that got the local police to block off Oak Tree Road for forty minutes. It also had the most Gujarati I […]
What the OCI actually is The Overseas Citizen of India card, in plain language, is a lifetime visa to India that comes with most — but not all — of the practical rights of Indian citizenship. It is a document, not a status. It does not make you a citizen of India. India does not permit […]
Smita Ghosh, an Indian-origin appellate attorney at the Constitutional Accountability Center, has been part of the legal debate over birthright citizenship in the United States — a question with direct stakes for the Indian diaspora.
Holistic nutrition is the West's wellness obsession. For Indian families abroad, much of it was already on the thali — if the move overseas didn't quietly leave it behind.
Nutrition science is universal, but it doesn't land the same on every body. For the Indian diaspora — prone to particular deficiencies and metabolic risks, far from the sun and the kitchen of home — the fine print matters more.
