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Dr. Ramchandra Badachhape Feb. 18, 1930 ~ Jan. 28, 2025

Dr. Ramchandra Badachhape Feb. 18, 1930 ~ Jan. 28, 2025

HOUSTON: Ram Badachhape was born in the hamlet of Nasirabad, near Jalgaon, Maharashtra State, India. He was the oldest son of 6 children. He ultimately pursued a career in chemistry and obtained his PhD in Chemistry at Pune University in India in 1962 under the guidance of Dr. Anil Biswas. His dissertation focused on the […]

Shakuntala Bidaye Shetye May 29, 1933 ~ Jan. 14, 2025

Shakuntala Bidaye Shetye May 29, 1933 ~ Jan. 14, 2025

KATY: Shakuntala Shetye passed away peacefully on January 14, 2025, in Katy. She was known to her family and friends affectionately as Shaku. Shaku was born to Ganpati (Bapu) and Indira Bidaye in Rajapur, a small village in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, India. She spent most of her childhood in the coastal town of […]

Sagar Prabhakar Naik Sept. 9, 1958 ~ Jan. 21, 2025

Sagar Prabhakar Naik Sept. 9, 1958 ~ Jan. 21, 2025

HOUSTON: Sagar Prabhakar Naik, who lost his courageous battle with pancreatic in Houston. Sagar was proud to be born in Mumbai, India to Prabhakar and Sumati Naik and was a devoted son, husband, father, brother, cousin, and friend. His life was defined by his love for and unwavering dedication to his family and friends. He […]

Sarla Chawla Oct. 25, 1930 ~ Jan. 12, 2025

Sarla Chawla Oct. 25, 1930 ~ Jan. 12, 2025

SUGAR LAND: Sarla Chawla was born on October 25, 1930, in Dera Ghazi Khan to Kishori Lal and Parvati Devi Nangia. She lived an incredible 94 years and breathed her last on Sunday, January 12, 2025. Her life’s journey was one of amazing and innumerable adventures. She survived a tumultuous Partition of India that brought […]

PM Manmohan Singh: Saluting the Gentleman Reformer

PM Manmohan Singh: Saluting the Gentleman Reformer

By Bhupinder ‘Bo’ Singh (Reporting from Delhi) The Akhand Paath of Sri Guru Granth Sahib was started on the first of January at the residence of Dr Manmohan Singh (fondly known as MMS), the Ex -Prime Minister of India, who passed away on 26th December 2024. The Paath (reading of entire Sri Guru Granth Sahib) […]

Houston-based Bapsi Sidhwa: A Voice of South Asian Literature

Houston-based Bapsi Sidhwa: A Voice of South Asian Literature

HOUSTON: Bapsi Sidhwa is a celebrated Pakistani author whose works have left a profound impact on South Asian literature and beyond. Born in Karachi in 1938 and raised in Lahore, she belongs to the Parsi community, a religious minority in South Asia. Her unique position as a Parsi woman in a predominantly Muslim country has […]

Sushila Vijaykumar Desai: February 19, 1924 – November 30, 2024

Sushila Vijaykumar Desai: February 19, 1924 – November 30, 2024

(Affectionately called “Bhabhi”) Sushila “Bhabhi” Vijaykumar Desai, aged 100, passed away on November 30, 2024, surrounded by family in Mumbai, India, during a long-awaited trip to her beloved home country. She was born on February 19, 1924, in Rangoon, Burma, to [Chimanlal Shah] and [Chandanben Shah]. Growing up in an era when it was uncommon […]

Pillar of the Indo-American Community — Dr. Virendra S. Mathur: 1935-2024

Pillar of the Indo-American Community — Dr. Virendra S. Mathur: 1935-2024

HOUSTON: Dr. Virendra Singh  Mathur, one of the Founders and Trustees of India House, passed away on November 21, 2024, at 2:05 PM. The funeral service for Dr. Mathur was held at the Sugar Land Mortuary last Sunday, Nov. 24 in Sugar Land. Dr. Mathur is survived by his wife Nalini and son Dr. Gaurav […]

Lohit Datta-Barua

Lohit Datta-Barua

HOUSTON: Dr. Lohit Datta-Barua of Humble, Texas, passed away on November 3, 2024, in Sugar Land, Texas. He suffered cardiac arrest while doing what he loved, motivating and bringing together his community while running in a 5K raising funds for a cancer hospital in Assam, India. Lohit deeply loved his birthplace Assam, where he played […]

Commodore Rajan Vir: 1930-2024

Commodore Rajan Vir: 1930-2024

PUNE: Commodore Rajan Vir, a Director of Equator India, and Father of Equator President Atul Vir, sadly left for his heavenly abode on July 20th, 2024. Commodore Vir was born in Jammu in 1930. He studied in Lahore at the well-known Government College, and later graduated from East Punjab University with Botany and Chemistry as […]

Remembering Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee

Remembering Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee

Dear Editor: Our Indian community will deeply miss longtime Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who passed away at age 74 on July 19th due to pancreatic cancer. Sheila was a cherished friend of our community in Houston, always extending her support even to those outside her 18th Congressional District. She often attended our events, generously […]

Shakuntla ‘Mama’ Malhotra: 1928-2024

Shakuntla ‘Mama’ Malhotra: 1928-2024

With Her Heart in Ancestral Punjab, Mama Adapted to Life’s Many Changes By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: She never forgot the ancestral homes in Jhang and Lyallpur she grew up in and especially the galli mohalays where her grandfather’s large joint family lived in a house with a central compound where on one side there was […]

Tulsi Kewalramani

Tulsi Kewalramani

HOUSTON: The Indian community in Houston lost a good friend in the passing of Tulsi Kewalramani on Saturday, May 25th, 2024. Tulsi born and brought up in India, attended Sainik Boarding School in Jamnagar. He then went on to do Marine Engineering and sailed around the world on board cargo ships, as an engineer. Family […]

Arya Samaj Greater Houston’s Tribute to Prem Bhatia, An Exuberant Person

Arya Samaj Greater Houston’s Tribute to Prem Bhatia, An Exuberant Person

By Acharya Bramdeo Oṁ vāyur-anilam amṛtam athedaṁ bhasmāntaṁ śarīram | Oṁ krato smara, klibe smara, kṛtaṁ smara || (YajurVeda 40.15 || Ātmā, the soul is the doer. It is not made of physical matter. It is immortal. It is that which keeps the body alive. The body dies when the soul leaves the body. Cremation […]

Tributes to HGH Founding Member Dr. G.S. Gopalakrishna

Tributes to HGH Founding Member Dr. G.S. Gopalakrishna

By Dr. Mark Gilger Dr. Mark Gilger is with Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) & Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) HOUSTON: I am a pediatrician & pediatric gastroenterologist. Dr Gopalakrishna was a friend, colleague and mentor. I first met “Krishna”, as he was always known to us, in 1986, as I began my fellowship training in […]

Sarojini R. Badachhape: 1936-2024

Sarojini R. Badachhape: 1936-2024

HOUSTON: Sarojini R. Badachhape was born as Sindhu Ramdas Navgale on June 3, 1936 in Bhusaval, Maharashtra, India. She married Ramchandra B. Badachhape, Ph.D. at an early age. She had to discontinue her college education as the couple started their family with daughter Maya and son Abhay. Soon they migrated to the United States. They […]

HSS President Ved Prakash Nanda: 1934-2024 with Tributes from HGH, Sewa

HSS President Ved Prakash Nanda: 1934-2024 with Tributes from HGH, Sewa

DENVER: Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS) mourns the passing of its America Sanghachalak (President) Prof. Ved Prakash Nanda on Monday, January 1st, 2024 in his hometown Denver, CO. He was surrounded by his close family and HSS volunteers. Born in 1934 in Gujranwala of the undivided India, Prof. Nanda underwent an arduous immigration to the Punjab […]

Motorcycle Accident Kills Kiran Olivia Sharma

Motorcycle Accident Kills Kiran Olivia Sharma

LIVE OAK COUNTY: According to the Texas Department of Public Safety on December 17th, at 9:40 p.m., a man driving a 1999 Ford Crown Victoria struck a woman riding a 2007 Harley Davidson Motorcycle on southbound Interstate-37 near mile marker 56, North of the US 59 Interchange in Live Oak County. According to DPS troopers, […]

Sandra (Sandi) Louise Bhatia: 1946-2023

Sandra (Sandi) Louise Bhatia: 1946-2023

HOUSTON: Sandra (Sandi) Louise Bhatia, 77, passed away on November 21, 2023 in Houston, Texas.  She was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1946 to Richard and Dorothy Hass.  Sandi married Dr. Pritam S. Bhatia in 1965. Sandi attended the University of Arkansas, where she received a master’s degree in social work. She worked as a […]

Vidya Wati Uppal 1916-2023

Vidya Wati Uppal 1916-2023

CHICAGO: Vidya Wati Uppal was born on Aug 20, 1916, in the city of Sargodha in pre-partition India. She got married to our father Dr. Amir Chand Uppal in 1937 and together they raised their five children. The partition of India in 1947 forced them from their home after which they settled in Rohtak, India. […]

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