Don't to rush into marriages with visiting NRIs, don't marry in a hurry to repent in leisure.
'My best friend just moved to San Francisco, doesn't really know anyone there. You guys should really get together,' the passenger was telling the air hostess, who he had first seen, half an hour back.
I landed in Las Vegas among counters, not at its casinos, but in a convention hall.
A year before Mahatma Gandhi's return from South Africa to India, a cry for India's freedom was heard from the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
'Understand a McDonald's and you will understand America,' said Paul sounding like an ancient rishi with a key mantra.
With all of Dr Kalam's American interlocutors, the idea that a scientist could reach such a high public office in a democracy evoked awe and admiration.
The UN Secretary General was greeting me in Hindi. He had started his foreign service career in the Korean embassy in New Delhi and had retained a love of India.
'Globalisation had brought the Udupi to the West, but not the sensibility and samskriti to truly appreciate its blessings.'
'It is early days as yet and what is certain is that like all technology Web 2.0 will irrevocably and irreversibly change the way we interact with the Web and with each other.'
The manifest curiosity about India in a near exclusive Chinese audience in America was a new experience for me.
The US has fought many wars. But more Americans have lost their lives as a result of random domestic shootings than all the loss of lives from all the wars!
The most useful word to describe Indian identity and reality is 'multi'. We are multi-ethic, multi-religious, multi-linguistic, multi-cultural and any other multi that can be thrown at us.
'No wonder I had not grown rich. It was now too late. My one or two untutored adventures in the past in this direction had disappeared like Harshad Mehta from the financial pages.'
'To meet someone in Silicon Valley without Googling them in advance is the professional equivalent of declaring that you don't use a computer. It is suicidal as I have learnt.'
'Whatever' I thought, best describes the spirit of being truly American.
It is difficult even for us as Indians whether the image of India that is being evoked is accurate, true-but-selective, untrue and deliberately distortive, or plain bizarre.
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