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- One Foul Job Ad
I have been following a thread on Immigration Voice for the last couple of days. It concerns a company...
- The Pursuit of Fun
Any given weekend when the sun is shining brightly, the kids in my neighborhood are outside making the most of...
- Book Review: 100 Questions From My Child - Pop Mothering
When you have the Deepak Chopra brand on your side you can write a book called 100 Questions From...
- Over The Hill
Reading this article on been there done that desi dudes reminded me of desi men I have met in...
- Book Review: One Night @ The Call Center
By when you make it to page twenty of Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @ The Call Center, you see a...
- Movie Review: Laaga Chunari Mein Daag - The Figurative Womb
It's not very often that I am able to take away a meaningful message from a Bollywood flick so I...
- Cram Junkies
I am not familiar with a Korean cram school equivalent in India though the unscrupulous coaching centers come...
- Mock Democracy
Back in the day before I had a mini Obamaphile in the household, I would barely keep my Democrat...
- Book Review: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Reading the collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri in Unaccustomed Earth is like unwrapping layer upon layer of...
- Manohar And Rohan - A Tale of the Indian Middle Class
The story of Manohar and his son Rohan is also the story of the Indian middle class renaissance, a transformation...
- Social Lynching
Each time I return from a desi do where I've had to feel like an outcast because I don't come...
- An Uneven Balance
At the end of very long days and especially if it happens to be an important Hindu festival, I ask...
- State Of Victimness
This Metafilter post seeking help for a woman in an abusive relationship has some very thought-provoking comments from readers....
- Date, Park, Ride - Friends with Benefits
I was forwarded a joke recently about a smart alec desi who offers his new Rolls Royce as collateral for...
- Empowered Women: Project Blank Noise
I read about Project Blanknoise in Ms. Magazine and felt immensely proud of the amazing women who started this....
- Short Story: Miracle Bra
Miracle Unvisited"Us Indians are a marriage happy people. There is religious, social and the parental sanction to copulate...
- Visiting a Hindu Temple in the US
J had asked to go to the temple, so we did yesterday. I am not sure what part of the...
- Relationship Patterns
After much soul searching and unnecessary heartache, I think I might have finally come to an understanding of the pattern...
- The Quiet Crisis In America - Unlikely Heroes
I have been reading The World Is Flat the last few days. Of the many sound bites that pepper the...
- Returning Natives And The Changing Landscape
The present day desi in the US returning to India is completely unlike the NRIs of the 80s vintage and...
- Desi Dating And Matrimonial Musings
A veteran war horse of the dating game once gave me advice out of pity for my naiveté "Spend...
- Customer, Guest or Athithi?
I remember my desi sensibilities being jarred the first time I visited socially with an American family. After spending a...
- Homeward Bound Desis - The Reverse Brain Drain
A lot is being said and written of the reverse brain drain these days. The prodigals are coming back to...
- Movie Review: Deepa Mehta's Water - A Watery Waste
Perhaps the only positive thing I can say about Deepa Mehta's Water is that it provoked me to list in...
- Eloquent Silence
I was surprised to read that the Indian government has allowed the release of the Da Vinci Code movie even...
- Business Offshore Outsourcing: Spanner In Works
Though its well known, acknowledged old news every once in a while the "real" cost savings from outsourcing makes
- Enticing Scarcity
I am the kind of consumer that is hopelessly confused by an excess of choice. Confused to the point where...
- Hazed for a Sandwich
I was at the neighborhood sandwich joint for a tuna sub for J and I. The teen that was taking...
- Indian Flower Children
Estelle brought a whiff of fresh air into our sterile cubicle from the moment she arrived. Much common ground was...
- Coming Of Age - Gender Stereotypes In Action
Earlier this morning, D and I were have a light-hearted conversation about our coming of age experiences. He told me...
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