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The New Yorker
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"Matcha Indians" are countrymen who've mentally emigrated to America while their passports remain proudly Indian. They can recite Friends dialogues by heart but struggle to name five contemporary films in their mother tongue. Their Instagram stories erupt with reactions to the Met Gala red carpet, yet remain silent during their city's largest
... See moreIn the late 1990s, the national media were abuzz with stories of South Asian immigrants to California: the H-1B visa holders, the brilliant computer scientists and engineers from the subcontinent who were flocking to Silicon Valley to be part of the Internet revolution. Their story merged with, and seemed a natural sequel to, the saga of the
... See moreMinal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
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Each time I cross a border, I feel the push and pull in my body, a cacophony of competing desires. And always there are choices to make: what to assimilate, what to reject. Is it true that we are always, as migrants, and the children of migrants, attempting to choose what my parents call "the best of both worlds"? Or is it possible to transcend—no,
... See moreMinal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
