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published in 2006 won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book
Awards for non-fiction.
ESPN's sports anchor Kevin Negandhi is the first anchor of Indian-American origin to be on a national
sports network in American Television history and Ali Velshi, son of Murad Velshi, the first Canadian of
Indian- origin elected to the legislative assembly of Ontario, serves as CNN's chief business
correspondent.
Other Indian-origin personalities include Davan Maharaj, managing editor of the Los Angeles Times;
Stephanie Mehta, Fortune magazine Executive Editor overseeing technology, and Nikhil Deogun, Senior
Vice President and Editor in Chief Business News, CNBC. Peter Bhatia, editor of The Oregonian, is the
first South Asian to run a major US daily. Apart from these, there are many lesser known Indian-
Americans serving as producers, reporters, copy editors and production assistants, bringing Americans
their daily news -showing how far Indian-American have come in the media world.
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US Company says solar mission sourcing 'self-destructive'
A US-based photovoltaic cellmaker has termed the sourcing policy under India's national solar mission as
"self-destructive" and said it discourages competition. Maja Wessels, First Solar's executive VP, global
public affairs, said prices of solar photovoltaic cells are not coming down due to lack of competition. "It
makes more sense for India to open up for foreign manufacturers instead of protecting its own. The
government needs to facilitate price reduction and competition."
India plans to add 1,000 MW of solar power projects by 2013 and achieve 20,000 MW by 2022. Under
the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, all investors must compulsorily use domestic solar modules
and buy 30% of their inputs from local manufacturers. India is facing stiff resistance to this local sourcing
clause from the US and the EU.
"National solar mission is a visionary plan. It even brought down the prices of solar products but then it
should also widen the market base in the country," Wessels said, adding, "For a country where there is
such a huge potential for solar generated power, such a policy does not make sense." First Solar
commissioned 200 MW projects in India last year, becoming the largest foreign seller of solar equipment
in India in the thin-film category.
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India has vast win-win commercial potential, says US
US Commerce Secretary John Bryson, who recently led his first trade mission to India, wants America to
"deepen and broaden its commercial engagement with India where the win-win potential is vast." "The
only way we will accomplish that is through a foundation of strong person-to-person relationships," he
said in an address at the Centre for Strategic & International Studies, a Washington think tank.
"All of us must work together to build those bridges," Bryson said calling on "people throughout the
federal government and the private sector" and "Indian-American citizens as a whole-a population
which grew nearly 70 percent from 2000 to 2010." But, the US official said, the US still had "challenges in
regards to transparency, accountability and openness in India.
Though New Delhi "has taken important steps such as supporting the use of integrity pacts by
contractors and ratifying the UN convention against corruption", the US has "continued concerns with
everything from high tariffs, to intellectual property to forced local sourcing in IT and electronics.”It's
clear that we still have hurdles to overcome, but-after this trade mission-I believe more than ever that
we can indeed overcome them," Bryson said.