Immigrants from India find a home in Pittsburgh

The 2010 Census shows that Pittsburgh's Indian immigrant population has grown lately. They are becoming an important part of that city, including in the recent elections. - - Donna Poisl

By Rachel Weaver, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW

When Siddhartha Srinivasa told friends and family in 1999 that he was moving to Pittsburgh to study robotics, few people knew the city about which he spoke.

"Everyone asked why I was not going to MIT or Stanford or Berkeley," said Srinivasa, 32, a native of South India who earned a doctorate in robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. "I think that impression is changing. Now when I go to India, they recognize the city more."

Since they began immigrating to the country in the 1960s, members of the Indian-American population have contributed to the cultural, technological and, more recently, political landscape of Western Pennsylvania. And their numbers are booming.
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