@alfiekohn This in a nutshell is why I’ve sheltered my kids from #Indian society.

#IndianAmerican

My Bollywood Dream is a love letter to Bollywood movies and to Mumbai. With beautiful illustrations, this picture book is a celebration of dance, music, cinema, Indian culture and dreams.

#MyBollywoodDream #AvaniDwivedi #candlewickpress #storygramkids #picturebook #childrensbooks #kidlit #book #bookstagram #booktok #bookstodon #littlefreelibraries
#bookdrop #mumbai #india #indianamerican #bipoc #bipocbooks #bollywood #bollywoodmovies #bollywoodsongs @bookstodon @kidlit

Anyone in #Seattle want to meet up this evening for drinks or bubble tea or something? I’d love to meet new people!

Pertinent tags:
#progressive #progressives
#UX #UXDesign
#Japanese #日本語 #日本語の勉強
#Pittsburgh
#IndianAmerican #Tamil
#BLM #antiracist #feminist #TransRights
I feel kind of desperate/awkward, haha - just trying to avoid a repeat of a recent local meetup that made me feel incredibly uncomfortable as a #NBPOC/#NBWOC.

«An #IndianAmerican attorney is being hailed as a “national hero” and “true patriot” in the #US after he successfully argued a case before the US #SupremeCourt against a legal theory being promoted by #conservatives, especially those who support former US #President Donald #Trump. The US-born attorney, named #NealKatyal, was representing the watchdog group ‘ #CommonCause’ and won the judgement 6-3, with support from three #liberal and three #conservative judges.»

https://www.wionews.com/world/why-americans-including-obama-are-in-awe-of-indian-american-attorney-neal-katyal-610282

Hey there!

I’m an #IndianAmerican 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 who makes #comics, writes #stories, and blogs about trying to become a professional (ie no dayjob) #creative & other stuff.

I also have a later life #adhd diagnosis (at 49) and I’m still sorting through various griefs and trying to figure out what parts of my personality are masking and what are authentic parts of me.

I almost finished a #journalcomic about how I figured out that I have ADHD but I got distracted by something else 🤷🏽‍♂️

#introduction

#NeeraTanden became first #IndianAmerican to head domestic policy council under #US #President #JoeBiden’s administration. Nearly more than 130 Indian-Americans are serving in American administration. After replacing adviser Susan Rice, Neera is appointed to formulate policies such as economic mobility, racial equity, health care, immigration and education.

✍️ Shefali Ranawat
🔗 https://en.eatnews.net/article-1/20230519-1/

Out for some love #comedy tonight! Curious to see how many #desis show up late for #HariKondabolu 🤔

#IndianStandardTime #Durham #NorthCarolina #IndianAmerican

Telugu Americans are a large proportion of the Indian population living abroad. In this story for NPR, photographer Akash Pamarthy looks through four lenses (family, keepsakes, festivals and food) at how the immigrant community is keeping the Telugu identity and culture alive.

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/05/01/1144971419/how-the-telugu-immigrant-community-is-instilling-their-culture-in-the-next-gener

#AAPI #IndianAmerican #Culture #Photography #India

#Caste #AsianAmerican #Indianamerican

Where my #desi peeps at? I had a recent experience with a fellow #IndianAmerican guy, similar to me in some ways: also around 50, born in the US, spent a LOT of time in India before 10, ESL like me.

Dude called me a Bad Indian.

Why? I was not familiar with the smell of the curry leaf.

It was so ridiculous I burst out laughing. This was some granular #WhatWillTheyThink-ism. And the 1st time I’ve heard someone say what we know many desis think, but express in more oblique manners.

But the fucker called me a #BadIndian again an hour later (I don’t recall why, but it’s irrelevant), and he didn’t hide his judginess by pretending he was joking this time (he was immediately inducted into my Shitlist Hall of Fame 🏆🏆🏆).

I’m not insulted as I’ve made no effort to be a ‘good’ Indian in decades. Technically, he’s not wrong.

But he is a dick, and illustrates what’s wrong with Indian society and why I’ve shielded my kids from it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NoCuQ2benB4

YouTube served this up to me this morning and watching it was trippy AF! Also head-wobble inducing, I can’t help myself when I find myself agreeing with someone speaking Bengali or Hindi 😆

I am #Bengali and didn’t speak English until I was 5, despite being born in the US. We spent 1/2 the year in #Kolkata #India until I was 8 and were immersed in the #NewYorkCity #Indian community when in the States.

The #Bangla voice actors seemed pretty true to the Western characters, except for Peter B. Parker, whose exhaustion was ignored in favor of a happy-go-lucky dad. They changed his tired “I have a baby” to a happy “Yes, a very sweet baby!” 🤦🏽‍♂️

I want to see this in Bengali, to see the different choices they made for acting & emotions. And maybe with the captions on, because I have the vocabulary of a 10 year old #Indian kid.

#IndianAmerican #IntoTheSpiderverse #AcrossTheSpiderverse #Movies #Trailer #POSSE

https://whatwasidoingagain.com/interests/animation/across-the-spider-verse-bengali-trailer/

This really makes me think about #IndianAmerican parents and #Indian society as a whole. I still don’t care for the societal pressures but I do understand them better.

#desi #BadIndian

The inspiring story of Hon. Surendran Pattel, #IndianAmerican District Court judge and former day-labourer from Kerala
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64232516

Made #homemade #naan for the first time and it was SCRUMPTIOUS.

No tandoor needed.

Also easy to make 👍🏽

#IndianFood #desi #IndianAmerican #cooking #Indian

Hey there!

I’m an #IndianAmerican 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 who makes #comics, writes #stories, and blogs about trying to become a professional (ie no dayjob) #creative & other stuff.

I also have a later life #adhd diagnosis (at 49) and I’m still sorting through various griefs and trying to figure out what parts of my personality are masking and what are authentic parts of me.

I almost finished a #journalcomic about how I figured out that I have ADHD but I got distracted by something else 🤷🏽‍♂️

#introduction

#AsianAmerican #AsianAmerica #ThaiAmerican #IndianAmerican #LGBT #Transgender #KoreanAmerican #Koreatown #ChineseAmerican #LittleTokyo #JapaneseAmerican

Here's my most unexpected find so far via Ideas of India, using their search engine:

In 1934, Debendra Chandra Dasgupta wrote this 5-page article about elementary schools in Berkeley, California.

It covers BUSD's methods, budgets, and even a site visit to Longfellow School

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.549630/page/520/mode/1up

(4/n)

#Berkeley #BerkeleyCA #IndianAmerican

@AshBeardguy Yo yo yo I’m into comics in general (preferably not superhero as those are mostly boring), mythology, storytelling & story structure, fantastical movies (animated & with humans, including superheroes) - and I also write & draw comics. And I’m #IndianAmerican.

Hey there!

I’m an #IndianAmerican 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 who makes #comics, writes #stories, and blogs about trying to become a professional (ie no dayjob) #creative & other stuff.

I also have a later life #adhd diagnosis (at 49) and I’m still sorting through various griefs and trying to figure out what parts of my personality are masking and what are authentic parts of me.

I almost finished a #journalcomic about how I figured out that I have ADHD but I got distracted by something else 🤷🏽‍♂️

#introduction

@anirvan I feel I bit intimidated but I figure I’ll give it a go. I’ve kept my family at arm’s length for years due to drama, which also curtailed the community & cultural aspects like pujas, etc. There’s more to it than that, but that’s the short story.

I’m a web geek who loves comics, myth, & stories. And it would be cool to know people who can relate to the experience of being #IndianAmerican (or #IndianBritish, et al).

I use ‘we’ when discussing either America or India 🤷🏽‍♂️