THE INDOFILES

Since Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, microlending has become a buzzword. And at levels large and small, South Asians have been a driving force in the spread of its popularity.
Yunnus, of course, heads the Grameen Bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Premal Shah is the president of Kiva, a very popular website that connects lenders [...]

Among many of us, there has been a notion that there is a glass ceiling that exists at the highest levels of American society for Indian Americans. The feeling arises from the belief that we are a model minority, with one of the highest educated and paid segments of the U.S. population. It is also evidenced [...]