Tech to public policy: Tracking success of Indian-Americans

Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America is a new book by author and journalist Meenakshi Ahamed.

- HT Correspondent

NEW DELHI: While many immigrant groups have found success in the United States, few have excelled as far and as fast as Indian Americans, reaching heights in a single generation that many thought would take the better part of a century to achieve.

Ahamed's new book offers fascinating portraits of several Indian Americans in three distinct sectors—technology, medicine, and public policy. The book tries to understand what exactly accounts for Indian Americans' ability to break into mainstream American culture and their meteoric rise within its ranks.

To talk about her new book and the five-million strong Indian diaspora in the United States, Ahamed spoke on a recent episode of Grand Tamasha, a weekly podcast on Indian politics and policy co-produced by HT and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.