: About Me

I am a Flexible Citizen. I question the Idea of India. I theorize the Diaspora. My family is my strength. I have Wings as well as Roots. I am a seasoned dancer. I speak three languages. I remember faces.

Born and raised in South Asia, I am young woman with a few American degrees. My multi-cultural identity is often mistakenly described as confused: an American influence on a Mumbai-based Gujarati identity.

I spent 5 years studying diasporic women who struggle to pass on their native culture to their children in a foreign land. I spent them out in the field, in villages, in homes and with myself, contemplating, thinking and watching the world go by.

I head the research department at SpaFinder, Inc. and love predicting Indian spa trends.

Sciences > Cultural Anthropology Anthropology: Intro to the concept of culture

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My love affair with anthropology! I spent 3 years studying a population via the use of anthropological field methods. Here, I want to talk particularly about the struggles I faced in the process, and the advantages of being a native in the culture I studied. I studied the Gujarati community in Gujarat, India - known for its migratory nature. This description is about a pilot project where I lived near a village, and observed and interacted with the community - - and obviously took notes, that you see here. This research took place in 2005, after which I returned to the US to complete the s...

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