Indian Arrival Day celebrations May 30 - the day when the first ship carrying over 200 indentured Indian labourers reached Trinidad and Tobago 160 years ago.


Indian diaspora filmmakers dominated at the recent 5th Annual ReelWorld Film Festival held in this Canadian city and several also walked away with awards.


An article by the Diasporic journalist Francis Assisi on Project Indian Diaspora: Encyclopedia of Indians Overseas.

In addition there will be archival and modern photographs of people, costume, buildings, cultural traditions, and economic activities, documents, artifacts - as well as a comprehensive array of maps, diagrams and important statistics. The editors claim that “Every writer has been asked to contribute photographs, as well as directing us to other sources of material. The photographs will convey a sense of period and a sense of place, so reinforcing the themes that will emerge from the text - demonstrating not only what members of the Indian diaspora have in common with one another, and with India itself, but also what has come to differentiate one community from another.

Honigman explains why Gandhi’s idealistic vision for India failed in its own right and why it would be expected to fail when applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Sam Pitroda said the intention of the council is to attract the talents of intellectuals, professionals, industrialists, scientists, university professors and other experts from various fields to help India in its quest for wealth and development. "We have seen a change in our traditional mindset and people back home are receptive to new ideas and modernization", he said.