THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - Nearly half of the motels in the U.S. are owned by Indian Americans. Six years ago, Pawan Dhingra, a newly-appointed sociology professor at Tufts University, set out to examine why such an ubiquitous and distinctly American roadside fixture became so popular among this community, focusing on a surge of Gujarati motel keepers who contributed to the “Patel motel” phenomenon...continue to the full article here.