i WHAT NO ONE TELLS YOU ABOUT PLANNING AN INDIAN/INTERCULTURAL WEDDING Exactly one week ago, September 6th, 2008 was our Indian wedding ceremony aka “Big Fat Indian Wedding.” It has now been 8 years since that date; how time flies. August 15th, 2008 was our Christian ceremony in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. We had two separate …
I’m In An Interracial/Intercultural Relationship…What No One Talks About Watching Mother’s Day The Movie I recently watched Mother’s day the movie and noticed that Kate Hudson’s character Jesse is married to an Indian man but her parents are oblivious to her marriage and also her biracial child existing. Jesse has been secretly living this way for years and she had a …
My Interracial/Intercultural Relationship Caused Me To Be Disowned By My Family This Relationship Is Not Allowed Growing up in an Indian family, I, Sachin became accustomed to hearing the normal stereotypes used to describe African-Americans, Asians, and a barrage of other ethnicities. From a family perspective, there wasn’t any ill my parents had with these ethnicities; …
Finding Love Caused Us To Test And Cross All Cultural Boundaries Letting Go Of Fear “Fear made me say no, but friendship and curiosity caused me to say yes.” As, an African-American woman I had never thought about the prospect of marrying an Indian man. Sure, I had crushes on numerous guys of other ethnicities, but it …
INTERRACIAL/INTERCULTURAL DATING LESSONS LEARNED… HER TAKE My husband is my BFF, other whole, and King, etc. However dating and being married to him has presented a myriad of “interesting” familial experiences. These are familial experiences that are rarely if ever seen on US sitcoms that love to bring humor to family situations. Nonetheless these are realities that many of …
OVERCOMING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES Dating and being married to a woman of another culture of course presented interesting familial experiences. These are familial experiences that many Indian men that are married to Indian women don’t get to experience. They have provided a richness to my life that I didn’t even consider when entering into a relationship with a woman of a …
For some of us, dancing is not a skill we have mastered. I personally consider myself to be a fairly good dancer. Conversely, when it came time to put my dancing skills to use at my first Indian party I had no idea what to expect or what I was doing. I had never danced …
Interracial Dating Secrets Revealed Finding Humor In Calamity… To say that my husband, Sachin and I did not go through a rather tumultuous dating relationship would be an understatement. We secretly dated (courted) each other for 4 years before becoming engaged. For us looking left and then right constantly was a way of life. We …
A CRASH COURSE IN HINDI After about a year of dating/being courted by my husband he asked me to learn Hindi. He stated that he wanted me to be able to speak the language. It was important to him because although, his parents spoke English their native tongue was Hindi. He further expressed that it would be a great …
A Non-Indian Woman’s Guide to Indian Clothing Terror crept upon me as my boyfriend (now husband ) echoed, “I’m going to introduce you to my parents in two weeks.” I swiftly blurted out what in the world am I going to wear? He gestured “we’ll have to get you some Indian Clothing to wear.” I thought to myself, …
