Book: Capital: The Eruption of Delhi Author: Rana Dasgupta Review by: Trevor Williams, managing editor of Global Atlanta I’ve traveled to India once. It’s a pulsating place, loud with the din of lives crashing against each other and people trying to get by. I’ve seen this with my own eyes and can say it with Read more
Q&A: Can a New Chamber Deepen Atlanta’s India Outreach?
Editor’s note: Atlanta has long benefited from an active, prosperous community of Indian-origin immigrants that some estimate to number more than 100,000. Many metro companies have deep operations in India, and the city has been the venue for billions of dollars in Indian-backed acquisitions. Indian tech giants like Wipro and Tech Mahindra employ thousands of Atlantans and Read more
Khabar: India’s New Consul General Gains Community Welcome
India’s new consul general in Atlanta was welcomed by nearly 70 Indian organizations at a banquet that drew attendees from across the region she covers. Swati Vijay Kulkarni, a medical doctor by training and a diplomat with more than two decades experience, spent the evening of Oct. 6 with community groups from Georgia, South Carolina, Read more
Did Foreign Graduates Help Lure Amazon Away From Atlanta?
Greater availability of recent foreign graduates in Washington and New York may have played a role in Amazon’s decision put its second and third headquarters operations in those cities, passing over other top-20 metro hopefuls like Atlanta. Reports have speculated that the expected challenge of finding talent drove Amazon’s last-second decision to split its planned 50,000-job Read more
Cardlytics to Open First Asia Office in India
Atlanta-based Cardlytics plans to open its first Asia office next year in Visakhapatnam, an eastern Indian city making its case as a financial technology hub. The office will open in early 2019 and will ramp up to 80 employees by the following year, according to a news release by Cardlytics, which helps banks and other Read more
Commentary: Fast Track No Longer: Talent-based Green Cards Face Unprecedented Delays
Editor’s note/disclosure: This sponsored commentary piece was written by an attorney at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP under an advertising arrangement with Global Atlanta. Historically, foreign national employees who meet the lofty threshold for qualifying as individuals of extraordinary ability, outstanding professors or researchers, or multinational managers have enjoyed a fast track to Read more
Former NIIT Technologies Exec Rallies Networks to Launch Management Consulting and Service Firms
Lalit Dhingra has been at the forefront of digital innovation since he arrived in Atlanta in 1997 with what he called “a one-man army.” As president of NIIT Technologies USA Inc. he built from inception the U.S. arm of the company with revenues of $225 million and a staff of 1,000 with offices in four Read more
Starbucks India Joint Venture Taps Atlanta-based Exec as CEO
Atlanta resident Navin Gurnaney has been tapped to head up the joint venture that brought coffee giant Starbucks into India six years ago. Tata Starbucks Private Ltd., the 50/50 partnership that runs 128 stores across many of India’s major cities, said Mr. Gurnaney would become CEO as of Jan. 1. Mr. Gurnaney worked eight years in Read more
East West Buys North Carolina Factory to Kick-Start U.S. Expansion
Atlanta-based East West Manufacturing has purchased a North Carolina factory in what it hopes will be the beginning of a string of acquisitions to beef up its domestic presence. The company has built its reputation as a contract manufacturer sourcing products and components from a diverse array of Asian contract suppliers as well as from Read more
Emory Professor’s 80th Birthday Celebrated Appropriately at the ‘Infinite Energy Center’ in Duluth
To celebrate his 80th birthday, Jagdish Sheth‘s family collected at the Infinite Energy Center in Duluth the evening of Sept. 1. “Celebrating birthdays of 80-year-olds is an Indian tradition,” Rajen Sheth, Professor Sheth’s son, told Global Atlanta. “Not all Indians make it to that age.” Sheth family members traveled from both near and far to Read more
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