The United States is home to 4.5 million Indians, the largest Indian diaspora outside South Asia, and New York is the community's cultural and commercial heartbeat. Jackson Heights and Flushing in Queens, the New Jersey corridor (Edison, Parsippany, Iselin), and midtown Manhattan's India-linked business network form a vast NRI ecosystem. Diwali on Park Avenue, Navratri celebrations in New Jersey convention halls, Pongal in Queens temples, Vedic traditions thrive here.
New York uses Eastern Time, which observes daylight saving: EST (UTC-5) in winter and EDT (UTC-4) in summer. Sunrise ranges from 5:24 AM in June to 7:16 AM in December, a nearly 2-hour seasonal variation. A fixed IST-offset approach gives wrong timings year-round. CosmosPandit computes today's Rahu Kaal directly from New York's coordinates (40.7128°N, 74.0060°W).
New York's Indian community speaks every language we support, Gujarati (largest business community), Telugu (tech and medicine professionals), Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Punjabi, Marathi, and Malayalam. CosmosPandit serves all eight communities in their own language.
Astronomically precise Rahu Kaal timings for 25 major Indian cities.