Valley Chai

apologies for the long gap in posting. was in powerpoint-land for a few weeks. that’s over now, it’s back to execution.
returned from the US last night. a year or so after relocating to the US, i got a new perspective on the country i lived in for the last 14 years. here’s what i wish […]

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f.o.b stands for ‘fresh off boat’, mostly used by a.b.c.d (american born confused desi’s) to describe desi travelers/students that make their first trips to the u.s. it’s considered a derogatory term, but it doesn’t bother me. i was a f.o.b once.
i have come across quite a few folks that have the telltale f.o.b signs. the […]

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a little trust, a ton of service, and one suffocating crowd after another.
it may be the widespread spend-culture, plethora of brands or may be my myopic view of the few places i frequent. as my professor at IIMB puts it, india has 350M middle-class population in india that can afford most of the good brands […]

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as a world-citizen, i am quite elated about what sunita williams has achieved. her being of indian origin is a marker that is to be noted, and respected for what it is. as female minority astronaut achieving the success she did is remarkable. check out the story on rediff.
but indians rushing to confer an award […]

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i am back on my rental movie queue. this time it’s seventymm.com rather than netflix.com.
one movie that i so reluctantly tossed in my queue was BLACK by sanjay leela bansali. my wife was mostly disinterested, shying away from the fear of being depressed by the film. so i popped in the dvd into my home […]

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