By and large I got through the Indian wedding unscathed, despite being “next in line” (age-wise) to get married.  Until the end, when an aunt told me that …well that I was next-in-line, that I need to get married, and finally that it was her personal project to get me married. On the long plane [...]

  Bloomberg maps some ethnicities of Americans relative to each other. You can also map one ethnicity, but since it’s not as a percentage of population that map is pretty useless.  Not surprisingly, the west coast tends to be have more Chinese-majority counties and the east has more Indian-majority counties.  The middle section is interesting [...]

In this week’s installment, we learn of two women worried about their relationships – one has a controlling man, the other, a man unwilling to support her.  The doctor’s advice?  They should do a cost-benefit analysis to help them make a decision. Yup. bharatmatrimony.com has a counseling website (http://betweenus.bharatmatrimony.com).  At a minimum, this thing is [...]

I had this published on ABCDlady a couple of years ago and thought I might as well repost it for the holidays. A Multicultural Holiday It was a lazy December, and we didn’t feel like pulling out the Christmas tree and spending all day decorating it. My mom insisted we have something though—it was tradition. [...]

Filter by: Resident status (work permit, student visa, citizen, temporary visa) Physical status (normal, physically challenged) Complexion (fair, very fair, wheatish, wheatish brown, dark) Profile created by (self, parents, siblings, relatives, friends) Occupation… nonprofit is not an option. To humour certain family members who think TamilMatrimony.com would be an appropriate online “dating” site for me, [...]

To avoid the wrath of Kedar, I’m posting an article that he sent me a while back.  I mean, it is very interesting and I would post it wrath or none! The article summarizes some interesting stats about the 3.2 million Indians living in America, compared to other Asians.  So I made some graphs!  The [...]

Best site of the day. http://www.samosapedia.com/ The definitive guide to Indian English. For example, did you know that Rakhi (the bracelet that sisters tie on their brother’s hand for the holiday Raksha Bandhan) is apparently also used for girls to KLPD “would-be suitors?” And now you’re probably wondering what KLPD even means.  Look it up [...]