The road to Bangalore goes through Shasta, Portland, Cedar Falls, Chicago and New York

The road to Bangalore goes through Shasta, Portland, Cedar Falls, Chicago and New York

July 02, 20082 mins

IMG_3122It’s official – we are moving to Bangalore. (Here’s more on Why Bangalore). Before I made the 2-week scouting trip to India, Poonam had this idea for a road trip across US before our India…

Service with a Smile

Service with a Smile

June 29, 20082 mins

Pic: courtesy nirmaltv.com Chauffeurs. Parlourmaids. Cooks. Nannies. Gardeners. These professions were largely in vogue in the eighteenth and nineteenth century England steeped in nobility and…

Soft Landing Anyone?

Soft Landing Anyone?

June 18, 20082 mins

Soft landing. Two words used most often by friends and acquaintances when I revealed my India plans. “You want a soft landing”, the wise men said. Moving to India would be hard overall so taking up a…

Brother or Best Friend?

Brother or Best Friend?

June 17, 20081 mins

My two-week whirlwind India trip was not touching Hyderabad. This was a bummer because my brother lives there. Since I had a 6-day continuous stay in Bangalore, he planned a 2-day trip to Bangalore to…

The two types of Indian immigrants

The two types of Indian immigrants

June 04, 20083 mins

“When an Indian professional becomes a ‘Non-Resident Indian’ in the United States , he soon starts suffering from a strange disease. The symptoms are a fixture of restlessness,anxiety, hope and…

Why did the Kurugantis immigrate to America?

Why did the Kurugantis immigrate to America?

June 04, 20082 mins

Sometime in my 2nd year of engineering at BIT Mesra, I first dreamed of coming to America, getting trained as a computer scientist, doing cutting-edge research and becoming wildly famous – you know…

Why are we moving back to India now?

Why are we moving back to India now?

June 02, 20084 mins

This is the first question our friends and acquaintances ask when they learn about our India plans. The first part of the answer lies in understanding why we immigrated to America in the first place…

Why the urge to blog *now* ?

Why the urge to blog *now* ?

June 01, 20082 mins

The itch to blog has been there for several years. But I’m more of a generalist than a specialist. I believe it’s much easier for specialists to blog regularly than generalists. Audiences are…

Where in India are we moving to?

Where in India are we moving to?

May 30, 20082 mins

So we are moving to India but to which city? For better or worse, the list of candidate cities is fairly small. Before we get into discussing the merits and demerits of each city, let me outline the…

16 years later…

16 years later…

May 19, 20081 mins

16 years? Well – to be more precise 15 years, 9 months & 5 days since I came to America from India. Chasing the American Dream I came.. first to the University of Houston to pursue an MS in Computer…