Indian Kid Snigdha Nandipati is 2012 Bee Champion Indian-American kids are crushing the rest of the contestants in the 2012 Spelling Bee competition. Of the 50 youngsters who have reached the 2012 Spelling Bee semifinals, at least 20 are of Indian origin. Desis do not account for even 1% of the U.S. population but 40% […]
Indian Kid Snigdha Nandipati is 2012 Bee Champion I counted 45 Indian kids from the 278 shortlisted contestants for the 2012 Scripps Spelling Bee Competition. Of the 45 desis, 23 are girls and the rest boys. The youngest Indian kid is eight-year-old Ashrita Vadlapatla from North Carolina. Ashrita can trace her roots to the great […]
Dharun Ravi’s parents Ravi Pazhani and Sabitha Pazhani lashed out at the media in the Middlesex County courthouse today during the sentencing hearing of their son in the Tyler Clementi webcam spying case. Addressing Judge Glenn Berman in the New Jersey court, Dharun’s father Ravi Pazhani said: Prosecutors are saying this trial is not about […]
Tamil youth Dharun Ravi will be an unhappy, unwilling guest of the American jail system for 30-days following his sentencing today in the Tyler Clementi webcam spying case. Victory for Dharun Unswayed by arguments made by Dharun’s attorney Philip Nettl that there had been a “miscarriage of justice,” Judge Glenn Berman today sentenced 20-year-old Dharun […]
New: Escaped! Dharun Ravi Gets Just 30-Day Jail Term This time tomorrow (10PM EST), Tamil youth Dharun Ravi will either be celebrating as a free man or have been hauled off to prison to serve time for his actions. On March 16, 2012, a New Jersey jury found 20-year-old Dharun guilty of bias, invasion of […]
Of the seven new IBM Fellows named today, two are desis. The two new IBM Fellows of Indian origin are Ruchir Puri of IBM Research at Yorktown Heights, NY and Balaram Sinharoy of the Systems and Technology Group in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Who are IBM Fellows? IBM Fellow is the computer company’s highest technical award to […]