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  When India’s second wave of COVID-19 started surging last month, Atlanta-based Indian grocery delivery service Subziwalla sprang into action. Subziwalla co-founders Sajal Rohatgi and Manav Thaker joined GPB’s Rickey Bevington virtually, both from New York, where they were working this week. Rickey Bevington: Tell me, when did you both realize that what was happening in India was much bigger than maybe was being reported in the news? When did this all start for each of you? Sajal Rohatgi: The immediate family, for me, started showing sort of infections and report around early ...

India’s large diaspora — long a boon to India’s economy — is tapping its wealth, political clout and expertise to help its home country combat the catastrophic coronavirus surge that has left people to die outside overwhelmed hospitals. Around the world, people of Indian descent are donating money, personally delivering desperately needed oxygen equipment and setting up telehealth consultations and information sessions in hopes of beating back the outbreak. Two humanitarian groups in the U.S. led by people of Indian background raised more than $25 million in recent days to...

Print India’s large diaspora — long a boon to India’s economy — is tapping its wealth, political clout and expertise to help its ancestral land combat the catastrophic coronavirus surge that has seen people dying outside overwhelmed hospitals. Around the world, people of Indian descent are donating money, personally delivering desperately needed oxygen equipment and setting up telemedicine consultations and information sessions in hopes of beating back the outbreak. Two humanitarian groups in the U.S. led by people of Indian heritage raised more than $25 million in recent days to help...

Sikh Group Has Website Blocked in India, Uses WhatsApp to Donate Oxygen Amid COVID Spike On 5/6/21 at 5:01 PM EDT As the COVID-19 crisis continues to ravage the health care system in India, the government has welcomed oxygen supplies from several countries including the U.S., Britain and Germany as well as money from people of Indian descent around the world. However, it seems India has turned away help from Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a U.S.-based Sikh separatist group. According to the Associated Press, the group said the Indian government blocked its COVID-19 relief website, oxygenfund.org. T...

India's large diaspora — long a boon to India's economy — is tapping its wealth,...