Go Yeast, Young Man!(Indians in America)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Newsweek International, August, 2002 by Tharoor, Shashi

Ever since Christopher Columbus set out for India and discovered America, his intended destination has remained curiously disconnected from the land of Manifest Destiny. It is only in recent years that this has begun to change with a wave of immigrants from the Subcontinent, many of whom first entered the United States as students on scholarships. Holidaying in south India with my 18-year-old twin sons this August, I realized how far this process has gone--and how far it still has to go.

Demographic projections suggest that the next U.S. Census will find more Indian-Americans than American Indians. Any doubts I might have had about these numbers were dispelled at a dinner party I attended in the textile town of Coimbatore--at just over a million inhabitants,...

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