Gopal Raju

[1] Raju's India Abroad was considered to be an important milestone for the growth of ethnic media in the U.S and one of the most credible Indian American publications.

[1][5] The Economist, a respected British weekly international affairs magazine, once referred to Raju's India Abroad as a daily publication of "unusually high quality".

[3][5] In 1997, Raju held talks to merger India Abroad with India-West, an ethnic Indian American newspaper published in California.

[3] Raju and India-West publisher, Ramesh Murarka, went as far a jointly purchasing a building in San Leandro, California, to house the offices of the proposed, combined newspaper.

[1] The IANS, which is headquartered in New Delhi, focuses its reporting on issues affecting India, South Asia and the Indian Diaspora around the world.

In 2006, Raju held discussions and agreed to a merger and alignment of News India Times, Desi Talk operations with South Asian Insider, a weekly newspaper run by Sharanjit Singh Thind.

[4][6] The IAF has raised millions of US dollars to fund medical, educational, development and disaster relief projects in India.

[3] The IACPA places Indian American students in internships within the offices of members of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate in Washington D.C.[4][6] The IACPA, under Raju, has placed approximately 200 Indian American interns on Capitol Hill to date.

Abdul Kalam, conferred the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman on Raju in 2007 for his contributions in the media to India and the Indian diaspora.