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Setbacks are good, I realized, they beam with hope!

Setbacks of even a minor sort have an ability to bring us back on track. They make us review our choices. I encountered something similar after I moved to Toronto where a minor health problem of mine was magnified because...

May 1, 2016
Kalyan Sripada
Arts and Culture

When it comes to education, West is Best!

We move to the US for higher education in search of better opportunities and so...

April 30, 2016
Animesh Pathak
Arts and Culture

You Speak American?

The actor Will Smith, while being interviewed on the TV show Inside the Actors Studio,...

April 28, 2016
Aparna Chintalapudi
Arts and Culture

Are Desi kids badly behaved?

Once a friend said, “Desi kids and dogs are both badly behaved!” when we mentioned...

April 27, 2016
Anonymous Desi
Arts and Culture

I know who I am, now I want the world to know – Dating a brown girl in a white country! 

Recently, I joined an online dating website and it has been a very interesting experience....

April 26, 2016
M Unknown
Arts and Culture

Aren’t we done with ‘Gurufying’ people yet?

In India the concept of Guru is very deep-rooted, guru comes before God and is...

April 26, 2016
Anonymous Desi
Arts and Culture

In Dubai I saw a cool side to Islam

Being in Dubai for almost fourteen years, I can chart the growth of three of...

April 24, 2016
Roopali Ganacharya
Arts and Culture

They say, “Fair is the only beautiful colour.” We say, “Take them on a tour!”

Being white is everyone’s dream, especially of people from South Asia, because from the time...

April 23, 2016
The Brown Desi
Arts and Culture

How I let my dream balloon fly away  

When we were kids, most of us had aspirations, some known and others; well a...

April 21, 2016
Jyothi Shetty
Arts and Culture

Divided we stand, United we fall?

When I travel from India to the US to stay with my children and meet...

April 20, 2016
Vanasri Nallamala
Arts and Culture

Why it took me a long time to make good friends in the US?

Something about geography influences the nature of friendships and one always tends to compare with...

April 17, 2016
Darshan Kembhavi
Arts and Culture

Heading to a better culture with Third Culture Kids ?

Growing up an expat is a part of who I am. I believe the term...

April 15, 2016
Rida Zafar
Arts and Culture

The H4 identity

A lot of effort has gone into making the word identity relevant, especially for a...

April 13, 2016
Jyothi Shetty
Arts and Culture

I know who I am, not quite where I am from

The year was 1999 and everyone was eagerly awaiting the Y2K bug to see if...

April 13, 2016
Karan More
Arts and Culture

Virtual arranged marriages are a reality for NRIs

Having grown up in the age and environment of the ‘Amerikan Dream’, I always aspired...

April 12, 2016
Sravani Tirumala
Arts and Culture

My banking experience in Singapore

An interesting discovery in Singapore (where I was based for most part of my stay...

April 10, 2016
Udan Khatola
Arts and Culture

Left hemisphere, Right hemisphere, Left…

I lived in six cities over the entire course of my school life. My father...

April 8, 2016
Aparna Chintalapudi
Arts and Culture

“Chiken, muton and beeef”- How ASEAN introduced me to vegetarian meat

Being born into the Tam-Bram community (originating from South India) would mean that one is...

April 6, 2016
Udan Khatola
Arts and Culture

Melbourne’s new horizons!

  Writing this makes me nostalgic. It was the Christmas of 2008 when I first...

April 5, 2016
Mansi Mehta
Arts and Culture

An Outsider’s Perspective at the JNU incident, and Freedom of Speech in India

I moved to the US when I was 22, and have been here since.  I...

April 4, 2016
Karthik Dantu
Arts and Culture

Home is where my story is

The voices of my son’s friends running around in the compound, calling out my name...

April 3, 2016
Priya Yechuri
Arts and Culture

Easter-Holi and NRI Nostalgia

This story will mainly feature my friends from back home. I will be using their...

March 31, 2016
Sharanya Venkatraman
Arts and Culture

Why the planet needs more South-Asians?

I am known to have hipster tendencies. I follow a mostly vegan diet, I shop...

March 28, 2016
thegreenhipster
Arts and Culture

We belong together – NY and I!

Most of us wish to belong—to belong to a place, to feel belonged, to have...

March 26, 2016
Jyothi Shetty
Arts and Culture

My Indian-Irish-American-Canadian-ness

If you are an Indian reading this, then my history in India might come across...

March 25, 2016
Madhu Chamarty
Arts and Culture

Holi Haigh!

As I stare out of the balcony on a snowy, wet morning in Toronto and...

March 24, 2016
Megha Subramanian
Arts and Culture

Dissecting the man in the mirror

The renowned psychologist, Erik Erikson, once said. “In the social jungle of human existence, there...

March 23, 2016
Quiescent-Quasar
Arts and Culture

Many faces of English

It was not until 2007, the year that I landed in the US, that I...

March 19, 2016
Megha Subramanian
Arts and Culture

Where is the center?

Nothing seems to bring out the worst in people like Politics does and Politics can....

March 18, 2016
KARIM
Arts and Culture

My journey with spirits

Alcohol drinking patterns reveal a lot about the culture you are from. I would have...

March 17, 2016
Animesh Pathak
Arts and Culture

When a desi is not an engineer? The desi gets f’ed!

Most Indians choose the US to establish themselves in the field of technology, but that...

March 17, 2016
Darshan Kembhavi
Arts and Culture

My India, but I cannot recognize it

Is India my home? No one else has to ask me this question, because I...

March 11, 2016
Rameet Sayal
Arts and Culture

My Japanese mind gets hammered inside my head when I deal with Indian maids and drivers!

“Oh, you have a “maid” and a driver? What a luxurious life you have! What...

March 9, 2016
Ayako
Arts and Culture

Rediscovering Myself in Amsterdam

As a girl growing up in India – more specifically, small town South India –...

March 9, 2016
Ranjani Mahajan
Arts and Culture

Nuances of my culture keep me rooted

“Wow, your mom’s hair is such a cool color, how’d she do that!” a friend...

March 3, 2016
Thanmayi Palegar
Arts and Culture

I understood spirituality when I was away from India

When I was in India my understanding of spirituality was limited to reading the Autobiography...

February 20, 2016
Jayanthi Hari
Arts and Culture

When I first landed in LA!

I came across some thoughts I had registered in the past when I first landed...

February 12, 2016
Harshavardhan Mylapilli
Arts and Culture

Lingua Inter Mingua – A peep into my linguistic adventures

I made an amusing discovery about myself while talking to my girlfriend’s family over the...

February 11, 2016
Kiran Varanasi
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