Indo American News Radio Houston TX

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(Gautam Sinha guest hosts for Sanchali)

Featured on Sat, Oct 4, 2025 from 3 - 4 pm on the “IAN UNPLUGGED” segment of Indo American News Radio (www.IndoAmerica-News.com) on 98.7 FM:

With Pramod & Gautam manning the studio, Jawahar goes LIVE from the Dusserah-Diwalicelebrations going on at Constellation Park in Sugar Land. Hear Dr Arun Verma, Vinnie Verma, Kapil Sharma, Gopal Aggarwal, Ravi Goel, Vijay Pallod, and others talk about the event and preparations.

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4-6pm INTERVIEWS (Gautam Sinha guest hosts for Sanchali)

Here’s the guest line-up for Sat, Oct 4, 2025 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio, a production of Indo American News (www.IndoAmerican-News.com). We areon 98.7 FM and you can also listen on the masalaradio app.

By Monday, hear the recorded show on Podcast uploaded on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public and Breaker. Our Podcast has been rated #2 among 100Podcasts in Houston by feedspot.com. We have 6 years of Podcasts and have had thousands of hits.

TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU’LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES.

4:20 pm Thousands of people get injured at work, while playing sports, in car accidents or get burnt by bad real estate deals and business ventures. Many do not know their options to seek compensation for their injuries or losses. On our monthly segment on personal litigation law we once again hear from Attorney Divjyot Singh, the Managing Partner at SHEV Law Group. He joins us today to explain what Litigation Law covers, from business and real estate to dealing with insurance companies and compensation claims.

5:00 pm The High Holy days of the Hindu calender are upon us and all across the region, garba celebrations are being held to mark Navaratri, Dusserah and Diwali with major events planned at Constellation Park today, Meenakshi Temple, ISKCON, BAPS and other temples.  Dr. Suryanarayana Nanda has been an Acharya at Arya Samaj of Greater Houston, and last week explained the significance of the celebrations. We have him back with us today to tell us the deeper meaning of Diwali.

5:30 pm In this digital age, it’s not enough for businesses – and even individuals - to have a email address, which isconsidered passe, to stand out, but they must also have an avatar, social media account, and even be on Tik Tok and other platforms. Among the millions of accounts on the web, how do you truly stand out and keep bringing customersback if content is King? For that, we turn to two professionals in the online space, Mujtaba Habib and Talha Ahmed to explain how they can spruce up your digital presence.

Also stay tuned in for news roundup, views, sports and movie reviews.     

TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW, OR TO ADVERTISE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 713-789-NEWS or6397 or at [email protected]

Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is the ONLY community paper widely available all across town at grocery stores from Hillcroft to Sugar Land, Katy and FM 1960. Also visit our website indoamerican-news.com which gets 90,000+ hits to track all current stories.

And remember to visit our digital archives from over 17 years. 

Plus, our entire 44 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University.

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4-6pm INTERVIEWS

Here’s the guest line-up for Sat, Sept 27, 2025 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio, a production of Indo American News (www.IndoAmerican-News.com). We are on 98.7 FM and you can also listen on the masalaradio app.

By Monday, hear the recorded show on Podcast uploaded on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public and Breaker. Our Podcast has been rated #2 among 100Podcasts in Houston by feedspot.com. We have 6 years of Podcasts and have had thousands of hits.

TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU’LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES.

4:20 pm Elections for the Fort Bend County Commissioners Court are held in even-numbered years. The primary election is slated for March 3, 2026 with the general electionscheduled for November 3, 2026. The Commissioners Courtincludes the County Judge, who is elected at large, and four Commissioners, all elected for four-year terms. The race Fort Bend County Judge has become controversial, and Melissa M. Wilson will be challenging incumbent KP George, aformer Democrat, who is now running as a Republican. Melissa joins us today to outline her election platform.

5:00 pm The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was founded on September 27, 1925, and reached its 100thanniversary in 2025. The organization is marking its centenary with a year-long schedule of celebrations, which began in late 2024 and will extend to Vijayadashami in 2026. To mark the occasion, the local chapter of the RSSwill periodically relevant present stories and to start it off, we are joined today by one outstanding sevak, Padma Shri Dr. Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo, who is currently touring the US, to describe his life’s work.

5:30 pm The High Holy days of the Hindu calender are upon us and all across the region, garba celebrations are being held to mark Navaratri, Dusserah and Diwali with major events planned at Constellation Park next Saturday, October 4, Meenakshi Temple, ISKCON, BAPS and other temples.  Dr. Suryanarayana Nanda has been an Acharya at Arya Samaj of Greater Houston, and joins us to explain the significance of the holy season.

Also stay tuned in for news roundup, views, sports and movie reviews.     

TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW, OR TO ADVERTISE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 713-789-NEWS or 6397 or at [email protected]

Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is the ONLY community paper widely available all across town at grocery stores from Hillcroft to Sugar Land, Katy and FM 1960. Also visit our website indoamerican-news.com which gets 90,000+ hits to track all current stories.

And remember to visit our digital archives from over 17 years. 

Plus, our entire 44 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University.

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4-6pm INTERVIEWS

Here’s the guest line-up for Sat, Sept 20, 2025 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio, a production of Indo American News (www.IndoAmerican-News.com). We are on 98.7 FM and you can also listen on the masalaradio app.

By Monday, hear the recorded show on Podcast uploaded on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public and Breaker. Our Podcast has been rated #2 among 100Podcasts in Houston by feedspot.com. We have 6 years of Podcasts and have had thousands of hits.

TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU’LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES.

4:20 pm Houston is making a big push for naturalization, but where are we now and where do we want to go? For 25 years, Congress has ignored the 1.4 million people who are on Temporary Protected Status or TPS and the 700,000 who came as children, who cannot apply for an official channel to get a Green Card,  In addition to making it more expensive to file for citizenship, the USCIS has made the civics exam more difficult to prepare for and to pass. Our frequent guest,Zenobia Lai, the Executive Director of Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative, tells us about these developments.

4:50 pm The Open Enrollment period to sign up for Medicare will begin on October 1 and lasts through December 7. We are joined by Medicare Insurance Broker Kaushi Shah who will explain the less understood parts ofMedicare insurance. We are all familiar with Medicare Part A and Part B, but there are many more nuances of Medicare. We ask her today to explain what changes are coming along next year to Medicare and why it is so important forus to pay attention before signing up.

5:20 pm Gopal Aggarwal is the founder and CEO of Tara Capital. He leads the company's corporate strategy, long-range planning, and business development functions and oversees capital improvement and value-add programs across portfolio. He has over 30 years of multi-faceted real estate experience across apartments, hotels, and retail. He joins us again today to tell us more about his current project which is open to interested investors right now, as well as what to look for when making a real estate investment.

Also stay tuned in for news roundup, views, sports and movie reviews.     

TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW, OR TO ADVERTISE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 713-789-NEWS or 6397 or at [email protected]

Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is the ONLY community paper widely available all across town at grocery stores from Hillcroft to Sugar Land, Katy and FM 1960. Also visit our website indoamerican-news.com which gets 90,000+ hits to track all current stories.

And remember to visit our digital archives from over 17 years. 

Plus, our entire 44 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University.

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4-6pm INTERVIEWS

Here’s the guest line-up for Sat, Sept 13, 2025 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio, a production of Indo American News (www.IndoAmerican-News.com). Weare on 98.7 FM and you can also listen on the masalaradio app.

By Monday, hear the recorded show on Podcast uploaded on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public and Breaker. Our Podcast has been rated #2 among 100Podcasts in Houston by feedspot.com. We have 6 years of Podcasts and have had thousands of hits.

TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU’LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES.

4:20 pm Lutfi Hassan has been a successful businessman and Houston icon for many years and the go-to person for matters related to the National Democratic Party through his close friendship with late Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. In 2022, Hassan was appointed the Honorary Consul General of Guyana to the Southwest United States.Since then, he has been instrumental in raising Guyana’s profile in the US and India, and played a role in guiding the country’s development after the boom in offshore oil production. He joins us today to share his achievements so far this year.

Also stay tuned in for news roundup, views, sports and movie reviews.     

TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW, OR TO ADVERTISE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 713-789-NEWS or 6397 or at [email protected]

Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is the ONLY community paper widely available all across town at grocery stores from Hillcroft to Sugar Land, Katy and FM 1960. Also visit our website indoamerican-news.com which gets 90,000+ hits to track all current stories.

And remember to visit our digital archives from over 17 years. 

Plus, our entire 44 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University.

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Featured on Sat, Sept 13, 2025 from 3 - 4 pm on the “IAN UNPLUGGED” segment of Indo American News Radio (www.IndoAmerica-News.com) on 98.7 FM:

On “Hey, Wassup?”, Jay, Sanchali & Pramod explore how hateful speech, fear mongering, surveillance and fake news has perpetuated a neo culture of distrust and destruction of goodwill in the past decade.

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4-6pm INTERVIEWS

Here’s the guest line-up for Sat, Sept 13, 2025 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio, a production of Indo American News (www.IndoAmerican-News.com). We are on 98.7 FM and you can also listen on the masalaradio app.

By Monday, hear the recorded show on Podcast uploaded on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public and Breaker. Our Podcast has been rated #2 among 100 Podcasts in Houston by feedspot.com. We have 6 years of Podcasts and have had thousands of hits.

TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU’LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES.

4:20 pm Lutfi Hassan has been a successful businessman and Houston icon for many years and the go-to person for matters related to the National Democratic Party through his close friendship with late Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. In 2022, Hassan was appointed the Honorary Consul General of Guyana to the Southwest United States.Since then, he has been instrumental in raising Guyana’s profile in the US and India, and played a role in guiding the country’s development after the boom in offshore oil production. He joins us today to share his achievements so far this year.

5:00 pm Opened just two years ago, the Eternal Gandhi Museum in Houston is dedicated to honoring the apostle of Non-violent disobedience, Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. As Gandhi’s 155th birthday approaches on October 2, we turn to Trustee and museum co-founder Dr. Manish Wani to tell us what celebrations are being planned.

5:20 pm Since the Trump Administration took power, it has kept its promise to round up illegal aliens and deport them or detain then in rapidly deployed detention facilities.Another less widely known aspect to this “immigrant cleansing” is the curtailment of student visas, the reduction in scholarships made available by universities, the huge increase in tourist visa fees and huge delays in getting visas all of which have been detrimental to America’s image abroad. Adding to this is greater scrutiny at ports of entry and possible retraction of long obtained naturalizedcitizenship due to irregularities in original applications. We ask attorney George Willy to explain how to deal with the citizenship issue.

Also stay tuned in for news roundup, views, sports and movie reviews.     

TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW, OR TO ADVERTISE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 713-789-NEWS or 6397 or at [email protected]

Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is the ONLY community paper widely available all across town at grocery stores from Hillcroft to Sugar Land, Katy and FM 1960. Also visit our website indoamerican-news.com which gets 90,000+ hits to track all current stories.

And remember to visit our digital archives from over 17 years. 

Plus, our entire 44 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University.

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4-6pm INTERVIEWS (Gautam Sinha guest hosts for Sanchali)

Here’s the guest line-up for Sat, Sept 6, 2025 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio, a production of Indo American News (www.IndoAmerican-News.com). We areon 98.7 FM and you can also listen on the masalaradio app.

By Monday, hear the recorded show on Podcast uploaded on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public and Breaker. Our Podcast has been rated #2 among 100Podcasts in Houston by feedspot.com. We have 6 years of Podcasts and have had thousands of hits.

TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU’LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES.

4:20 pm Thousands of people get injured at work, while playing sports, in car accidents and so on. Many do not know their options to seek compensation for their injuries. Starting today, we will feature a monthly segment on personal injury law by Attorney Divjyot Singh, the Managing Partner at SHEV Law Group. He joins us today to explain what Personal Injury Law covers, from car and truck accidents to dealing with insurance companies and compensation claims.

4:50 pm Under the guise of rounding up illegals who are criminals, the Trump Administration has been expanding surveillance of immigrants, but at what cost? The steps taken have gone beyond simple detention to wholesale invasion of private data as systems at the IRS and Social Security are co-mingled and reviewed, detention facilities built and used across the country, and social media accounts routinely checked at ports of entry. In seven months, the country has jettisoned safeguards and is looking more like a police state. Gautam Sinha has done some research on this transformation and shares his findings with us.  

5:20 pm In the past 34 years, Dr. Arun Verma has made his mark in Houston as a real estate entrepreneur after leading a very successful career in oil and gas in Canada. In the past fourteen years he has made another career for himself as the organizer of the Dussehra and Diwali celebration which has become a tradition in the greater Houston area. SpokesmanKapil Sharma calls in today to tell us about the upcoming event on October 4th and what to expect at the festival, which will be held once again at Constellation Field in Sugar Land.

Also stay tuned in for news roundup, views, sports and movie reviews.     

TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW, OR TO ADVERTISE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 713-789-NEWS or 6397 or at [email protected]

Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is the ONLY community paper widely available all across town at grocery stores from Hillcroft to Sugar Land, Katy and FM 1960. Also visit our website indoamerican-news.com which gets 90,000+ hits to track all current stories.

And remember to visit our digital archives from over 17 years. 

Plus, our entire 44 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University.

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(Gautam Sinha guest hosts for Sanchali)

Featured on Sat, August 30, 2025 from 3 - 4 pm on the “IAN UNPLUGGED” segment of Indo American News Radio (www.IndoAmerica-News.com) on 98.7 FMOn Bats & Balls, Jay, Pramod & Gautam Sinha talk to Claudio Nul, co-owner of The Volleyball School in Katy about the growth of the sport in the Houston area and potential for a national league and a professional team here. They later turnto avid sports fan Rakesh Vij for his take on a variety of localprofessional teams.

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4-6pm INTERVIEWS (Gautam Sinha guest hosts for Sanchali)

Here’s the guest line-up for Sat, August 30, 2025 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio, a production of Indo American News (www.IndoAmerican-News.com). Weare on 98.7 FM and you can also listen on the masalaradio app.

By Monday, hear the recorded show on Podcast uploaded on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public and Breaker. Our Podcast has been rated #2 among 100 Podcasts in Houston by feedspot.com. We have 6 years of Podcasts and have had thousands of hits.

TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU’LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES.

4:20 pm A truly remarkable event will be taking place this weekend at the ISKCON temple on Ella Blvd. It is  theannual Kirtan Fest dedicated to bringing together people from all walks of life to experience the transformative power of kirtan (congregational chanting). The centerpiece of Kirtan Fest is the Pushpa Abhishek, a flower festival in which more than 30,000 Ecuadorian roses — the largest and most vibrant in the world — will transform the space into a sea of petals, color, and joy. Devotee Ananjay Raju joins us today to tell us more about the festival.

4:50 pm The Jaipur Literature Festival will return to Houston next weekend, September 5 through 7 and will be held at four venues across the city, featuring many literary figures - like Houstonian Chitra Divakaruni, Sunanada Vashisht, film maker Shekhar Kapur, Amish, Ragini Tharoor Srivasan, Pria Ahmed, Sanjay Devarajan and many others - and panel discussions. Writer and poet Chitra Divakaruni will callin to talk about the significance of the Festival which will conclude on Sunday, September 7.

5:20 pm Dr. Sanjay Mehta has been treating cancers of the prostate, breast, lung, brain, GI tract with focused radiation beams with minimal side effects, because it avoids collateral damage to other nearby organs. His practice has adopted the European techniques of using very low dose radiationto treat arthritis and tendonitis with excellent results in only 6 painless treatments. He joins us today – along with his dad Dr Chandra Mehta who has benefitted from this treatment - to tell us more about this promising treatment.

Also stay tuned in for news roundup, views, sports and movie reviews.     

TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW, OR TO ADVERTISE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 713-789-NEWS or 6397 or at [email protected]

Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is the ONLY community paper widely available all across town at grocery stores from Hillcroft to Sugar Land, Katy and FM 1960. Also visit our website indoamerican-news.com which gets 90,000+ hits to track all current stories.

And remember to visit our digital archives from over 17 years. 

Plus, our entire 44 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University.