September 30, 2014, Orkut finally comes to a shutdown. As a teenager back in India years ago, I remember my growing up days with Orkut being our very first social media platform, introducing us to the virtual world madness.
Bengali diaspora, both from India and Bangladesh, has certain things in common: Durga Puja, love for Bangla language and Rabindrasangeet.
As an Indian surviving abroad, you often get asked countless, tiring and borderline racial, questions about our magnificently complex country.
We like to think that no one can know our country and our culture better than us.
There are two regular faces at my local store's till who I am particularly fond of. Greeted with the usual "You alright?", Clare bubbles into a long incomprehensive paragraph; I put up my widest Cheshire Cat grin in exchange.
After much trouble and stress, we had our passports with UK visa just two days before we were due to fly. Unsure of the visa, we had not packed anything.
We had been back from Singapore for close to two months now. It was an experiment for us — going to Singapore. We wanted to relocate overseas to a developed country.
There are people who look at fashion as simply a way to look good, and there are others who take it as a medium to express who they really are.
There are more than one million Indian-origin immigrants in Canada. But compared to rising number of Indian-origin immigrants, Indian investment has not kept pace in Canada.
"I love Bollywood movies. Seeing the guys and the girls dancing around the trees on various Indian songs makes them truly unique for me," mentioned an Israeli girl as we got ourselves engaged in a conversation when I accidentally bumped into her while roaming on the streets of Tel Aviv.
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