Metadata Index

Family's Religion

Arya Samaj Christian Hinduism Hinduism, Shaivism Hinduism, Swaminarayan Hindusim, Vaishnavism Islam Islam (Dawoodi Bohra) Jainism Pushtimargiya Sikh Sunni Islam Zoroastrianism

Languages Spoken

English Hindi Punjabi Bengali Bhojpuri Chinese English Fijian Gujarati Gurmukhi Hindi Hyderbadi Japanese Kannada Kutchi Malayalam Marathi Parsi Persian Punjabi Russian Sanskrit Sindhi Spanish Tamil Telugu Urdu

Place of Birth or Hometown

Harvard, IL Adena, Minnesota, United States Agra, India Ahmedabad, India Allahabad (Prayagraj), India Anand, India Ankleshwar, India Bangalore, India Bhandu, India Bombay (Mumbai), India Burdwan, India Calcutta, India Chicago, IL Dehradun, India Dhaka, Benjal Province, Britsh India Dohad, India Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States Fiji Ganj Dundwara, India Guntur, India Habbaniyah, Iraq Hyderabad, India Hyderabad, Sindh, British India Kaithal, India Kanpur, India Karimnagar, India Kavutaram, India Kodinar, India Kolkata, India Laksmeshwar, India Madras (Chennai), India Morbi, India Nadiad, India New Delhi, India New York, NY Pune, India Punjab Rajasthan, India Sargodha, British India Shimla, India Surat, India Tenali, India Thotlavalluru, India Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram), India Tumkur, India Ujjain, India Vadodara (Baroda), India West Bengal, India

Port of entry

Chicago, IL Honolulu, HI New York, NY Seattle, WA

Residence in United States other than Chicago

Naperville, IL Boston, MA Buffalo, NY Cleveland, OH Davis, CA Detroit, MI Eugene, OR Gary, IN Lawrence, KS Long Island, NY Los Angeles, CA Madison, WI New Jersey New York, NY Philadelphia, PA Pittsburgh, PA Poughkeepsie, NY Providence, RI San Francisco, CA St. Louis, MO State College, PA Sugar Grove, IL Syracuse, NY Tacoma, WA Tuscon, AZ Urbana, IL Washington, DC

Tags

Community Service Dedication to family Identity Islamic Society of Northwest Suburbs Religion Religious leader Special Events Swami Vivekananda Vivekanada Vedanta Society of Chicago cultural fusion discrimination politics 1947 Partition of India Aging American dream Bollywood Brahmin lineage British Caregiving Carnatic music Chicago Mehfil Cold War Cook County Hospital Covid-19 Pandemic Cross-cultural adjustment Devon Avenue Education Family Gandhi Gujarati community Health Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago Hindu Temple of Lake County Hinduism Indian Army Indo American Center Interior Design Islam Malayali Mar Thoma Church Mentorship Muslim Community Center of Chicago Naperville Senior Center Nehru Social work Southeast Asia Center (Uptown) Suburbanization Sunni Teaching Teaching English Trikone Chicago University of Chicago Vietnam War Westernization accent aging arranged marriage art industry bindi caregiving caste chain migration citizenship classical musical training culture shock dementia difficulty of returning discrimination duty engineer entertainment industry entrepeneur entrepreneurship exchange rate farming financial hardship finding Indian food finding community gas stations gender politics grocer hard work homesick immigration status interfaith isolation joint family labor organizing language education learning English learning to cook long-distance communication love marriage mixed-race children nonviolence not planning to stay pioneer queer queer community recession religious education returning home rural Gujarat sari servants small town spiritualism teaching transgender travel by ship widow women's issues