Tag Archives: India

By Corih Kim As the biggest Asian Festival in the Mid-Atlantic area, and continues to grow each year, as more participants and attendees partake in the celebration of East, Southeast, and South Asian cultures. The Asian Festival DC 2014 showcased the diverse Southeast Asian cultures, focusing on Thailand, Philippine, India, China, and Vietnam. The festival featured a main stage and …

By Aurora de Peralta WASHINGTON, D.C. – On June 21, 2014, the International Commission for Dalit Rights (ICDR) hosted a Global March Against Caste-Based Discrimination to raise awareness of the issues faced by Dalits and other victims of the caste system. ICDR is a Dalit-founded and run international nonprofit dedicated to promoting social justice in caste-affected countries. The organization planned …

  By Jenny Chen Local Author Sana Sood wrote the book Diwali: A Cultural Adventure in 2013 and it went on to get rave reviews on Amazon and Goodreads.com. We talked to Sana about her process and what diversity means in children’s literature. Asian Fortune: How did you get the idea to write this book? Sana: I wrote this book …

By Jennie L. Ilustre Maya Soetoro-Ng, peace educator, author and President Obama’s maternal half-sister, urged stronger “international and national collaboration” in fighting human trafficking, and lauded the work of organizations such as India-based Odanadi and Odanadi-US in rescuing and rehabilitating victims. “My brother’s administration is committed to solving this issue,” she said August 14 at the Center for American Progress …

By Jenny Chen “The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how,” said Deepak Chopra, one of the most famous contemporary Ayurvedic healers, and author of Perfect Health. Ayurveda is an ancient, 5,000 year old healing system originating from India, that extols intuitive and holistic health. Ayurveda has influenced many of the older traditional methods of healing including …

by: Mary Tablante 1.Fighting Hunger LOS ANGELES—Five Indian American freshmen at UCLA are competing for $1 million in seed funding for a student project with the goal of solving the global food crisis. The students, Aditya Aggarwal, Anushka Bhatia, Varadh Jain, Sajal Khanter and Sagar Patel, are developing an idea to purchase grain in bulk in India, package them into …