EditorialIssam Freiha, left, and Vinay Menda, high school acquaintances in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, who started the Blank Street coffee chain in 2020, in New York, Aug. 4, 2022. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialVinay Parameswaran, the Cleveland Orchestra’s associate conductor, got higher-profile assignments during the pandemic.?(Gabriela Hasbun/The New York Times)
EditorialVinay Patel, who owns nine hotels in Virginia and Maryland, in front of his Hampton Inn & Suites Herndon-Reston, which is near Dulles International Airport, in Herndon, Va., Jan. 8, 2021. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)