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16 years later…
Pic: courtesy caminodesantiago.me 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...
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Why did the Kurugantis immigrate to America?
Pic: courtesy indianamerica.wordpress.com 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...
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Memories of an American Life – First Two Years in Houston
University of Houston – Science & Engineering classroom complex (Pic: courtesy hayneswhaley.com) This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on my life in America spanning Houston, Chicago and SF Bay Area....
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When something’s not easy to do, you are doing it wrong
Pic: courtesy Bing Images 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...
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Bengali Mumbaikar takes the long way home
Pic: courtesy ekmarathimanoos.blogspot.com Soumya Banerjee (my friend from University of Houston days) returned from Boston to India 10 years ago – a period which we can term the “first wave” of...
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When I met a Mexican Vishy in a Texas Ghost Town
[Editor's Note: On a musical day that started with Depeche Mode, moved on to Buena Vista Social Club, and continued with Omoro Portuondo and Getz/Gilberto in the evening, it wasn't a surprise that I...
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The Indistructibles
When I bought the Palm Pilot 5000, I could legitimately call myself one of the “early adopters”. I still remember the excitement with which I drove to the Circuit City (somewhere near Park Ridge,...
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