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A sense of satisfaction… and accomplishment

A sense of satisfaction… and accomplishment

August 13, 20083 mins

Pic: courtesy nicolenewtonportfolio.com “You stink”, yelled my 7-year old nephew when I tried to give him a goodbye hug. “But I showered barely 2 hours ago”, I protested. Of course it was a different…

If this is not ulaari, then I don’t know what is

If this is not ulaari, then I don’t know what is

July 14, 20081 mins

“But my move was unconventional…”, replied my friend R who had moved to Bangalore from the Bay Area three years ago. Our email thread stalled at that point so I didn’t get a chance to learn what her…

The Last Temptation

The Last Temptation

July 08, 20082 mins

Pic: courtesy contentmentyetdespair.blogspot.com It started innocently enough. I was telling my friend (let’s call him “Joe”) at Company X about my decision to leave Graspr and move to India. Joe…

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…