ahnisa

ahnisa
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California, USA
Birthday
April 12

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A short break 

(A story of immigrant experience in America)

   That winter, three years after arriving in the USA, I returned home to visit my family. For the trip, I took a British Airways flight from New York to London. It was morning in London when my/… Read full post »

 A sweet ending.

(A story of immigrant experience in America)

   A foreign student in an American graduate school is like the proverbial American apple pie. Meaning that such students are very common. As a newly arriving student I had a vague knowledge about it/… Read full post »

School - 4

(A story of immigrant experience in America)

  

   During the first summer at my American school, I accepted an internship in a professor's  laboratory. A nice gentleman with slightly receding hairline, the professor was in his forties. We all called him Roy,&nb/… Read full post »

School - 3

(A story of immigrant experience in America)

 

   It was around that time that I came to know about a new Hare Krishna temple in the town. It was on Ridge Park, a road parallel to our Lake Boulevard but a mile or so further east. During summer/… Read full post »

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Lake Boulevard 

(A story of immigrant experience in America)

  

   After I lived in Treadway hall for my first few weeks in America, Unni helped me look for a private room near the school campus. He gave me a ride in his sky-blue car, a big old sedan. Long bereft of/… Read full post »

                                       Student life begins

(A story of immigrant experience in America)

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                                         America at last

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                            (Story of immigrant experience in America)

 

   Getting the visa to America was tough. The political relation between A/… Read full post »

                        (Story of immigrant experience in America)

 

   I left India on a hazy December day in the late nineteen seventies, on a plane named Rajhansa. In S/… Read full post »

 

                             (Story of immigrant experiences in America).

 

   Unemployment is always hard. It insults your self confidence… Read full post »

(Similarity with any name, character or incidence is purely coincidental). 

    After my second layoff, which happened within two years from the first (and a few such unwanted incidents in the family), my wife’s friends advised her to consult a reliable astrologer. “Ma… Read full post »

                  (A story of immigrant experience in America) 

( Similarity with any name, character or incidence is purely coincidental).

 

We came to the bay area in California from Chapel Hill when my f… Read full post »