Anish Kothari

Anish Kothari

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  • Lost in Pune

    • 24 Dec 2010
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    January brought me to Pune, a new job, and a new place to live at my cousin's house.

    I worked long hours, 9:30 am - 7:00 pm with an hour lunch break, 6 days a week. Luckily, I didn't have to commute - my office was literally next door. Unluckily, everyone in the office was Maharastrian so I was put into a Marathi crash course everyday. Everyone spoke to me in Hindi, which wasn't much better as my Hindi wasn't fluent back then.

    As for the job, I started off making training videos in English and supervised making Hindi training videos. I helped with writing scripts and editing video. Then I got into HTML/CSS to work on the software user interface, which was pretty interesting. I got to play around with design and was making progress in making the software user-friendly.

    I stayed at my cousin's house which was really nice. I slept in their guest bedroom, got to see a lot of movies and eat a lot of very good food. This was where I was introduced to Maharashtrian snacks like sabudana khichdi and vada pav, which are some of my favorite foods now.

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  • 2010: My Year in Review

    • 23 Dec 2010
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    I came to India in September 2009 which is where I want to start reviewing 2010, the first full year I've spent in India.

    Let me explain. I'm from the United States (Chicagoland). My parents were born in India. I was born in the USA. 25 years later, I came to live in India. I was frustrated by the lifestyle, the economy and was not optimistic about my future in the USA. I wanted to be with family and to experience India's economic growth, I wanted to speak Hindi and I wanted to travel. I wanted to be Indian.

    So in the remaining 9 days of the year I want to recount the year, month-by-month. This first post is from my arrival date in September to the beginning of the 2010.

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    Indian-American. These are the stories that define me.

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