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View ArticleDouble Minority: South Indian in America
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View ArticleSouth Africa PHOTOS!
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); My South Africa photos are here. Sorry for the long delay! Click on each photo for a description. These include my trips to Johannesburg, Cape Town,...
View ArticleNanowrimo: Writing a 50,000 Word Book While Traveling
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Sometimes, you just need to take on a challenge. Nanowrimo, for those of you who are unfamiliar, is a monthlong activity that happens every November,...
View ArticleAn Unexpected Asian Wedding Tour
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); When dreams come true, they no longer seem like dreams. For me to imagine that, when I first took an airplane abroad alone, to Paris, that I had no...
View ArticleLife, Death and Remembering
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); One day, when I was in high school, I returned home from school to find my grandma, Amama in Telugu, laying on the sofa, still. I walked over,...
View ArticleMy Path: Being Vegetarian
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); A genuine choice never feels like a sacrifice. If you act from your heart, instead of feeling constrained, following your values is liberating. When...
View ArticleAm I Asian too?
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Let me start on a lighter note – an anecdote from my Freshman year of College, more than 10 years ago. I was at the In-N-Out across the street from...
View ArticleDouble Minority: South Indian in America
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); This piece is the second in a series of articles on Asian culture and identity – starting with my experiences growing in America. Originally appeared...
View ArticleAlone on New Years
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The following is a letter I sent to my close friends on New Years and I wanted to share it with the world as well. Happy 2014 everyone! To my...
View Article7 Books that Changed my Life
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Stories have incredible power. Even before there was a written word, tales passed orally, from person to person, generation to generation, connecting...
View ArticleDon’t Love me (just) Cause I’m Brown
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); My first ever date was with a Vietnamese-American from the same summer program at Brown University during high school. She came up to me at the end...
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