I am a PhD student at University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. I am an Indian by birth as well as citizenship. As
you may know, India has a lot of diversity; every state has its own
language and culture. I am a Tamilian, though I have never lived
in my native state. I have lived in a number of places in India,
small towns as well as huge
cities. My early childhood was spent in a small town called
Yamunanagar located in northern India. After that I lived in
Bombay for a while, before shifting to another small town called
Ballarshah, then back to Bombay, before moving to Delhi :-) I
lived in Delhi for four years to do my undergrad at Indian Institute of
Technology. I came to Chapel Hill in 2000 for my graduate
studies. I have been living in Chapel Hill for the last five
years, the longest
time I have spent in one place in a very long time.