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Nehru’s pride, Indo-American relationship and the Indo-China war

Vishy KurugantiDecember 02, 20122 mins

Gurcharan Das, in his book India Unbound, makes a pithy statement. When individuals make blunders, it’s sad but when leaders make blunders, it’s a tragedy. He was referring to Indira Gandhi but the…

When Bokaro Steel Plant and America almost had a date…

Vishy KurugantiJune 18, 20127 mins

Bokaro Steel Plant main gate (Pic: courtesy sail.co.in) In Ambassador’s Journal, John Kenneth Galbraith writes about many interesting things during his tenure as US Ambassador to India. The snippets…

When something’s not easy to do, you are doing it wrong

Vishy KurugantiOctober 19, 20093 mins

It was early days for me at the University of Houston campus in the Fall of 1992. One of my initial starry-eyed memories was that of purchasing my first Coke can from a vending machine on my way back…

Congratulations President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama

Vishy KurugantiNovember 04, 20081 mins

What better way to celebrate Obama’s victory? Not just for America, but for the world! Thanks to my friend Fred Johnson for posting this on his Photography by Frederick Van blog.

Soft Landing Anyone?

Vishy KurugantiJune 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?

Vishy KurugantiJune 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

Vishy KurugantiJune 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?

Vishy KurugantiJune 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?

Vishy KurugantiJune 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* ?

Vishy KurugantiJune 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…

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