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Culture Shock: from Giving to Receiving
If you’ve ever lived overseas for an extended period of time you will realize that culture shock is not a ‘slap you in the face’ one day event. It is a creeping process that grasps you like a slow...
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Desh Hai Mera Jaisa Desh Hai Tera
The other evening as I went about my routine of making dinner. I ran out of rice, so I went to the pantry to refill my container. I had two bags that were partially used up. One from India. One from...
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Cultural Values in Kids’ Movies
Movies reinforce ideas of family, culture, and societal expectations to kids, but especially they reinforce expectations of love and relationships. If I ever had doubts about this, they vanished last...
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Why I Found NBC’s “Outsourced” Irrelevant
A lot of people have asked me over the past year: “What do you think of the show Outsourced?” “Did Outsourced really depict India?” “Is the work environment in India really like that” In the beginning...
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What Downton Abbey Teaches Us About Indian Society
“We all have our parts to play in society, and we must all be allowed to play them.” -Lord Grantham Ideal, yet troubled families: the Granthams from Downton Abbey and the Raichand’s from Kabhi Khushi...
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Three Tips for Succeeding Professionally in India
Living and working in India can be a strange mix of personal and professional, informal and formal, fascinating and frustrating. As a Westerner, one of the biggest struggles I had was figuring out how...
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Being White in India – Privilege and Power
I recently had an opportunity to share my story of racial identity. This is a much more personal blog than I usually write, so please respect my story in your comments. Growing up, I didn’t realize...
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India and the Art of Mindful Lingering
As one walks down any Indian street, you will find one thing which is unmistakably unique to South Asian and Middle Eastern cultures – lingerers. Men running chai stalls, taxi-drivers, tailors running...
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Colonialism and Self Respect in the 21st Century
I’ve noticed a peculiar trend. Behind a screen of nationalism, there are two polarized views that the outside world holds about India – simultaneous idolization and distain of Indian culture. Where...
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Themes of Honor and Shame in Bollywood Movies
Two huge Bollywood blockbusters just hit theaters in the last two weeks across the world. Both are selling out as crowds flock and millions of dollars have been made so far. On the surface both films...
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