Indo American News Radio Houston TX

Indo American News Radio

Indo American News Radio commentators Jawahar Malhotra, Sanchali Basu and Pramod Kulkarni cover an eclectic mix of news, views and guest interviews from the South Asian community in Houston, Texas, every Saturday from 4 to 6pm on FM 98.7. From 3 to 4 pm, Jyoti Kulkarni entertains on Classically Yours deciphering the Ragas which are the basis of Hindi movie songs and Jawahar & Sanchali play the I Think I Know This current affairs quiz. IANR is a product of Indo American News paper which has served the market for 43 years and is the oldest South Asian newspaper in the Southern part of the US.

  1. 1d ago

    IANR 2643 102426 FB 240th Court Judge Surenderan Pattel, Ramanpreet Singh on Sikh Meditation, Hanu Vamaraju on Hinduism for Young Scientists

    IANR 2643 102426 Line Up 4-6pm INTERVIEWS (Guest host Gautam Sinha in for Pramod) Here’s the guest line-up for Sat, October 24, 2026 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio (www.IndoAmerican-news.com), a production of Indo American News. 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 or go to our website and click on the IANR link. Our Podcast has been rated #2 among 100 Podcasts in Houston by feedspot.com and rated in the Top 20 Apple Podcasts in 13countries by Podstatus.com. In 7 years, we have nearly 1,000 Podcasts. And last month, at the Houston Community Media Convention, we were also won the Best Podcast Award for Healthcare for our piece on women and menopause. TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU’LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES. 4:20 pm Surendran Pattel is a very persistent and determined man who in 2022, won in his second election race for Judgefor the 240th Judicial District Court. In that position, he has worked hard to cut down the enormous backload of cases and earned the respect of his peers, attorneys and elected officials for his efficiency and even-handed approach. Surendran is now running for re-election against another South Asian opponent on the Republican ticket. He joins us today in the studio to talk about his accomplishments and what he hopes to do with a second term. 4:50 pm Ramanpreet Singh is a dedicated spiritual practitioner and meditation guide devoted to sharing thetimeless wisdom of the Guru Granth Sahib through the exploration of Naam, Gurbani, meditation, and spiritual self-discovery. He holds meditation retreats, Simran camps, and spiritual workshops across the US, Canada, and the UK. This weekend, through 11am on Sunday, he is holding a Simran Camp at the Sikh National Center. He calls us now from the camp to share what activities and courses are being offered. 5:20 pm In the fast-paced world of high technology which makes huge demands of those who develop the systems integration of massive amounts of data, Hanu Vamaraju stands out for his calm disposition and ability to separate tech life from his fascination with Hindu scriptures, wisdom,traditions, Ayurveda and yoga. He has studied all of these as a keen learner, not a scholar or a priest, reading the original texts and checking every claim against where it is written. He came to the troubling realization that the next generation is disengaged and have lost interest in carrying forward knowledge of thousands of years. Using his computer skills, Hanu has written a book called Spiritual Hinduism for Young Scientific Minds which melds virtual games with actual events in Hinduism. He joins us in the studio today to tell us more. 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 indoamericannews@yahoo.com Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is available all across town at grocery stores. 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 18 years.  Plus, our entire 45 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University.

    IANR 2643 102426 FB 240th Court Judge Surenderan Pattel, Ramanpreet Singh on Sikh Meditation, Hanu Vamaraju on Hinduism for Young Scientists
  2. 6d ago

    IANR 2642 101726 TX Senate Dem Candidate James Talarico, HC Pct 4 Comm Lesley Briones, Imm Atty George Willy, Activist Manju Kulkarni

    IANR 2642 101726 Line Up 4-6pm INTERVIEWS (Guest host Gautam Sinha in for Sanchali) Here’s the guest line-up for Sat, October 17, 2026 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio (www.IndoAmerican-news.com), a production of Indo American News. 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 or go to our website and click on the IANR link. Our Podcast has been rated #2 among 100 Podcasts in Houston by feedspot.com and rated in the Top 20 Apple Podcasts in 13countries by Podstatus.com. In 7 years, we have nearly 1,000 Podcasts. And last week, at the Houston Community Media Convention, we were also won the Best Podcast Award for Healthcare for our piece on women and menopause. TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU’LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES. 4:20 pm Lesley Briones was ushered into Harris County politics through a twist of fate in 2019 when she was appointed to take over the seat of Judge William McCleod who inadvertently resigned. Ever since then, Lesley realized that her true calling was to help people and she ran successfully in 2022 for Harris County Commissioner for Pct4, beating her Republican rival Jack Cagle by 8,000 votes. She hopes to do the same in her present race against former Pct 3 Commissioner Steve Raddack, who held that seat for 32 years before retiring. Briones has made remarkable progress in revitalizing Pct 4 with many projects and her team has developed great outreach with a transparent news campaign informing residents of progress.Lesley joins us in the studio today to talk about her achievements and future goals. 5:20 pm Each month, we feature eminent immigration attorney George Willy to discuss issues that may affect many of our listeners and each month, without fail, we have to dealwith another new and insidious executive order from President Trump which further solidifies his desire to limit entrance by foreign nationals into this country, a sort of ethnic cleansing by the Christian White Right wing. This time, George will deal with the latest new regulations on visas: the $70K fee for OTP visas; slashing refugee revocation deadline from 30 days to 10 and the prohibition of applying for H1B visas by hi-tech firms, especially Microsoft. 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 indoamericannews@yahoo.com Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is available all across town at grocery stores. 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 18 years.  Plus, our entire 45 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University.

    IANR 2642 101726 TX Senate Dem Candidate James Talarico, HC Pct 4 Comm Lesley Briones, Imm Atty George Willy, Activist Manju Kulkarni
  3. 6d ago

    IANR 2639 092626 Texas Tribune The Blast Lead Renzo Downey, IFS Business Insurance by Lalit Jallan, Tara Capital CEO Gopal Aggarwal Edited Rev 2

    IANR 2639 092626 Line Up 4-6pm INTERVIEWS (Guest host Kapil Sharma in for Pramod) Here’s the guest line-up for Sat, September 26, 2026 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio (www.IndoAmerican-news.com), a production of Indo American News. 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 or go to our website and click on the IANR link. Our Podcast has been rated #2 among 100 Podcasts in Houston by feedspot.com and rated in the Top 20 Apple Podcasts in 13countries by Podstatus.com. In 7 years, we have nearly 1,000 Podcasts. TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU’LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES. 4:20 pm The Texas Tribune held its annual Festival, in downtown Austin this weekend, with the final sessions and celebration party being held this evening, even as we speak.Now in its 16th year, the four-day festival brought out over 250 speakers in over 100 sessions, including many well-known politicians like James Talarico and Marjorie Taylor Greene, and many subject matter expert and elected officials, as journalists peppered them with hard questions in front of large audiences. Texas Tribune Lead Writer Renzo Downey tactfully moderated a session with three Republican State Reps – Mitch Little, Daniel Alders and Jeff Leach - and joins us today to give us a flavor of the much heralded political theater TribFest has become known for. 4:50 pm Many of our listeners, especially the entrepreneurs and those with running businesses, are so busy with the pressure of their work that they overlook the basics of insurance for their enterprises. There are several types of insurance that they should consider, from liability to workmen’s comp to loss of income, to name a few, which they should budget for. Our monthly insurance experts, LalitJallan and “PK” Prakash Chandiramani of Insurance FinancialServices Group, fill us up on these insurance details..   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 programsacross portfolio. He has over 30 years of multi-faceted real estate experience across apartments, hotels, and retail. He joins us today after a a dividend disbursement meeting with his investors to tell us about his latest project to build a school in Rajasthan, India to provide free computer skills to high school graduates. 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 indoamericannews@yahoo.com Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is available all across town at grocery stores. 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 18 years.  Plus, our entire 45 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University.

  4. Oct 17

    IANR 2641 101026 Resilient Infrastructure by Atri Sen & Francisco Sanchez, Medicare Changes by Ins Agent Kaushi Shah

    IANR 2641 101026 Line Up 4-6pm INTERVIEWS Here’s the guest line-up for Sat, October 10, 2026 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio (www.IndoAmerican-news.com), a production of Indo American News. 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 or go to our website and click on the IANR link. Our Podcast has been rated #2 among 100 Podcasts in Houston by feedspot.com and rated in the Top 20 Apple Podcasts in 13countries by Podstatus.com. In 7 years, we have nearly 1,000 Podcasts. This week, at the Houston Community Media Convention, we were also won the Best Podcast Award for Healthcare for our piece on women and menopause. TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU’LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES. 4:20 pm Building good infrastructure in a city as widespread as Houston has always been a challenge between not enough money and a race against time and it has only gotten worse as the climate has changed. Now it seems like its also a race to fight for insurance dollars and rebuild only to see the disaster occur again a few years later. Experts in building resilient structures like Francisco Sanchez, Senior Advisor of Hagerty Consulting, and Atri Sen, CEO of Resalire Infrastructure Solutions, have a different view on how to face this challenge and create the infrastructure that will last what will surely be even more vicious weather. They join us in the studio to share their expertise on infrastructure resiliency. 5:20 pm We are once again in the Open Enrollment period to sign up for Medicare policies before December 7 and many are nervous about the increased costs and trimmed coverages. We are joined once again by Medicare Insurance Broker Kaushi Shah who will explain the less understood parts of Medicare 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 to expect for Medicare, the costs and why it is so important for us to pay attention before signing up. 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 indoamericannews@yahoo.com Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is available all across town at grocery stores. 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 18 years.  Plus, our entire 45 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University.

    IANR 2641 101026 Resilient Infrastructure by Atri Sen & Francisco Sanchez, Medicare Changes by Ins Agent Kaushi Shah
  5. Oct 17

    IANR 2640 100326 HC Pct 5 JP Pl2 Mark Fury, Business Insurance by IFS Lalit Jallan, Tx Railroad Commission Dem Jon Rosenthal

    IANR 2640 100326 Line Up  4-6pm INTERVIEWS Here’s the guest line-up for Sat, October 3, 2026 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio (www.IndoAmerican-news.com), a production of Indo American News. 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 or go to our website and click on the IANR link. Our Podcast has been rated #2 among 100 Podcasts in Houston by feedspot.com and rated in the Top 20 Apple Podcasts in 13countries by Podstatus.com. In 7 years, we have nearly 1,000 Podcasts. TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU’LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES. 4:20 pm Many of us have had to go to the Harris County Courthouse Annex on Chimney Rock and Gulfton to take care of many routine matters and some even go there to the Justice of the Peace to get married. But many may not be aware that the facility on Clay Rd in Northwest Houston is also in Precinct 5 and has a Place 2 Justice of the Peace in a much more convenient location. We are joined today in thestudio by former JP Mark Fury, who previously served for two terms, and is now seeking re-election to Place 2 to explain his campaign platform. 4:50 pm Many of our listeners, especially the entrepreneurs and those with running businesses, are so busy with the pressure of their work that they overlook the basics of insurance for their enterprises. There are several types of insurance that they should consider, from liability to workmen’s comp to loss of income, to name a few, which they should budget for. Our monthly insurance experts, LalitJallan and “PK” Prakash Chandiramani of Insurance FinancialServices Group, fill us up on these insurance details.   5:20 pm The Texas Railroad Commission governs the oiland gas industry, natural gas utilities, and pipeline safety in Texas and is composed of three members: Christi Craddick, in office since December 2012; Wayne Christian since January 2017 and Jim Wright since January 2021. In the Republican primary, Bo French defeated Wright and is now facing Democrat Jon Rosenthal. French is the former chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party and has made numerous anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant comments. His recentpost on Facebook attacking the Asian students celebrating the UT football game victory over Ohio State showed his bigotry and has caused an uproar in both parties and the populace alike. We are joined today by his Jon Rosenthalwho is calling in from the campaign trail in Lubbock to talk about how this issue has affected the race. 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 indoamericannews@yahoo.com Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is available all across town at grocery stores. 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 18 years.  Plus, our entire 45 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University.

    IANR 2640 100326 HC Pct 5 JP Pl2 Mark Fury, Business Insurance by IFS Lalit Jallan, Tx Railroad Commission Dem Jon Rosenthal

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Indo American News Radio commentators Jawahar Malhotra, Sanchali Basu and Pramod Kulkarni cover an eclectic mix of news, views and guest interviews from the South Asian community in Houston, Texas, every Saturday from 4 to 6pm on FM 98.7. From 3 to 4 pm, Jyoti Kulkarni entertains on Classically Yours deciphering the Ragas which are the basis of Hindi movie songs and Jawahar & Sanchali play the I Think I Know This current affairs quiz. IANR is a product of Indo American News paper which has served the market for 43 years and is the oldest South Asian newspaper in the Southern part of the US.