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Most of us had come

with a dream to return

someday to our

motherland. That

remains a mirage. We

go through various

stages of immigration,

H1B Visa, then Green

Card and finally

Naturalization and

Citizenship. Milestone

changes, plan changes.

Returning becomes

difficult and finally

impossible. The Life

somewhat resembles

that of a lion that we

see in an artificial

safari.

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In career anchors, all of us faced the ‘reality-

shock’ when we entered the corporate life

after college. This reality shock is nothing

compared to the cultural shock that we went

through when we had come to this country.

The accent difference is significant. Forget we,

even a person who has spent multiple

decades in this country, can still be identified

clearly that he is from India. Not only accent,

there are many in the list. What we call a bank

cheque in India, is spelt as ‘check’ here. On

my first day here, I had been to a nearby

McDonalds. Looking at the photos of the

menus, I ordered for a Crispy Chicken meal.

So far the conversation with Mc girl was

somewhat ok. She then asked, “here? To go?” I

thought I heard her correct, but was confused

and could not make out what was she asking.

After further probing, I realized and replied

her “I want to take it to home”. She told, “ok,

you mean ‘to go’”. Then, I gave her my credit

card for payment. She told “we don’t accept

card payment. Here is your check (gave me

the printout), please give me that five dollar

bill(pointing at the five dollar note I had in my

hand). It is called a ‘check’ what we know as a

‘bill’ for years in India. What we call “note”

(like a Hundred Rupees note) in India, is

called “bill”(like 100 dollar bill) here. Most

vegetables, including potato, onions etc are at

least double the size of that we see in India.

Here, cost of labor is high and therefore,

repairing goods is expensive and people

prefer buy a new one, trashing the old one.

Legal system in US is strong. There are

various unimaginable subjects that are law

suited in this country. We still fear what is

appropriate to talk or what is the right way to

act and we always keep in mind that any slip

may lead to a law suit.

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Most of us grew up without any self ambition but were

ambitioned to study hard to become engineers, doctors,

teachers or lawyers. Our social acceptance was high if we were

good students. Very few of us had tried to listen to our hearts.

As a result, the creative traits were not cultivated. When, we

neared the 10th grade, our parents counseled us to study hard,

forgetting every other thing. Our creative and artistic traits got

subdued. When we look back, we watch programs on talent

exhibition in TV shows, we identify with those performers and

think, “I wish I tried this line….”. We feel “maybe it’s not the

right age, but what’s wrong in trying. We also want our children

to perform in front of the crowd and earn appreciation”. But,

there’s a need of a platform.

We formed a club, ‘BayBasi’, in Foster City, CA primarily with

Bengalis who came from Kolkata and live in Foster City or its

neighboring areas. Baybasi hosts multiple cultural events during

Durgapuja, Saraswatipuja and such other celebrations. It

provides this needed platform to the members and their family

members to demonstrate talents. However, because some of us

are unaware of our own hidden talents, we eventually try out

something that we never had in our capabilities. Sometimes, it

is like a situation of “Shashi Aditya”-meaning; portray the Moon

as Sun. We try ourselves or through our children with great

enthusiasm. Sometimes, it blossoms out the latent talent like a

pearl, the way it comes out of an oyster. These platforms may

give rise to budding singers or actors in future. The platform

offered, is so encouraging that even ‘Amalkanti’ could fulfill his

impossible ambition of becoming Sunlight. Amalkanti is a

famous character of a distinguished Bengali poet, Nirendranath

Chakraborty in his poem “Amalkanti”. Amalkanti was a dull

student who didn’t want to become a doctor or engineer or

lawyer, but sunlight.

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energy, exergy

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Adolescence ; essence

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Glossary:

Galvanized: Coated (iron or steel) with rust resistant zinc. Here it means brilliant enhanced appearance using cosmetics to or cover up. Locus: The set or configuration of all points whose coordinates satisfy a single equation. Here it means ‘track of movement’ Polarized: Rays of light made to the state in which all the vibration takes place in one plane or caused to vibrate in a definite pattern. Here it means ‘caused to behave in a definite pattern’. Critical angle: The angle of incidence above which no light will be transmitted out of the medium. Here it means looking secretly, that none would catch that you’re looking at something. Third law: Newton’s 3rd law of motion, an action has equal and opposite reaction. Coulomb: Unit of charge. Exergy: Available energy Ten power seven Erg: Erg is unit of energy. Ten power seven Erg is Joule. Here it means high energy. Inertia: Here means static inertia Angle of repose: The steepest angle of descent or dip of the slope relative to the horizontal plane when material on the slope face is on the verge of sliding. Here it means pause point Escape: Escape velocity means the speed needed to "break free" from a gravitational field without further propulsion. Here it means a high velocity of a moving person who can’t be followed. Decibel and pascal: Units of noise and pressure respectively. Amorphous: Non-crystalline, here it means not crystallized or shaped up or at random. Scalar: Value without direction and vector is with direction. Here it means ‘with choice’ and ‘no choice’ respectively. Young Modulus: Coefficient or degree of elasticity. Here it means ability of one’s endurance. Antigen is external protein in body which creates antibody and paratope is the antigen-binding site of an antibody. Here it means coexistence. Isotope: Atoms of an element with same atomic number but different mass number. Therefore, the chemical properties of isotopes remain the same. Here it means same of similar behavior. Entropy: Degree of randomness. Allotropy: Property of some elements to exist in two or more different forms, e.g., Carbon exist in form of Graphite, diamond and various others. Here it means different approaches of the same act.

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Today our kids, in US, are growing

in a complete different

environment. Forget iPad or

computers, we didn’t even have TV

at home. We grew up hearing

stories from our parents, then by

reading books of Rabindranath,

Abanindranath and such other

writers. Our individual values and

beliefs were developed from those.

Today, our children are no longer

interested in their works . But the

same values are instilled through

cartoons, videos and animations.

Though, we know that these are

well researched and scientifically

developed for the children’s

learning, we still suspect if these

methods are appropriate. In our

times, our unwanted behaviors

were stamped out by punishment.

Today, the concept is different. We

used to feel a song but today, songs

are enjoyed.

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Majority of Indians, who came

to the USA in the last decade,

rather since Y2K time, are the

software professionals

expatriated by Indian

outsourcing companies. Since

the time of Y2K debugging,

we have seen three

presidents - Clinton, Bush and

Obama. We witnessed

terrorist attack of ‘Nine

Eleven’, wars, dotcom bust

and various other economic

downturns. We have

experienced the drop in real

estate. Real estate was

soaring up in Bay Area and we

learned the term ‘Economic

bubble’. We experienced the

collapse of retail chains of

‘Good Guys’, ‘Circuit City’,

‘Borders’ and many others.

And etail business swept away

the retailers. Especially,

Amazon created the history of

making more than 25

inventory turns per year

compared to normal 5-6

inventory turns per year by

the other retailers.