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Comment on Oh California! And the stay or leave debate of the Indian immigrant by Priya

Priya — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:15:24 +0000

Tonight I am lying awake in India (jetlag); I am here from California because I am visiting my Dad as he has been very unwell. This question of moving back was at the forefront of my mind for the first 12 years of my stay in the USA, and on the back burner for the next 5 years, and today you could not pay me to move back to the Motherland. I am patriotic, I love my parents and all that, but I know that I have moved on too much and find it difficult to be on the same page as people here.
Leaving me aside, my kids have so much more exposure to a global lifestyle with all sorts of amenities and activities – without the pretension of being “rich and bratty” and followed by a retinue of maids ands drivers. My daughter can tell ‘A’ grade sushi from ordinary sushi at the age of 12, my son in his grade has kids from over 12 countries, I have access to yoga, homeopathy, chineses medicine, and all sorts of unheard of somatic therapies where I live….would I find all that in one city in India? The kind of perfect weather, ntellectual growth and acceptance that the kids are exposed to in California is unparelled to actually almost any place in the world. We are a melting pot in the Bay area, where as an Indian you are branded as ‘intelligent’ and ‘achieving’. I know my kids would be chewed up alive by the Indian education system if were to move back.

I think we are very good in the Bay Area, with frequent visits to India to visit the parents. The guilt which comes from being away from your parents is part and parcel of our lives – we need mental acceptance of that fact – because you know that your parents are happy with whereever you are happy.

Comment on Gujarati Kadhi – a surprise hit at my party by Manisha

Manisha — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:38:56 +0000

Ooooh! This sounds yummy! I have been making Kadhi Punjabi style all these years, and will try the Gujju version.

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