At least 20 Indian Americans and South Asian Americans are among the 54 students who punched their tickets to the 29th annual National Geographic Bee next month. [more]

Bestselling author Rashmi Bansal has published a new book God's Own Kitchen: The Inspiring Story of Akshaya Patra. The book explores the unique model and scale achieved by the Akshaya Patra Foundation's school meal program which serves hot school meals to 1.6 million children across India. [more]

Shri Dwarkamai Vidyapeeth of North Billerica hosted its Annual Bhajan Utsav on April 2nd during the week of Vasantha Navaratri to welcome the beginning of spring or Hindu New Year. This event is a series of bhajan mala performed by different devotional groups/classical music teachers leading to formation of all day bhajan utsav. [more]

IAFPE is hosting an panel discussion with Police Commissioner Evans and other leaders to address the concerns of the South Asian community that has recently been the target of hate crimes. The event is co-hosted by MIT India program, will be held on May 6 at the Wong Auditorium, MIT at 1:30 pm. [more]

IIT AGNE is sponsoring a presentation by Kaustuv Ganguli, is a professional vocalist, an engineer and a musicologist, trained in Hindustani music tradition. His presentation on April 26th at MIT will focus on on advances in AI and music recognition and include a demonstration of the AI Virtual musicologist. [more]