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Oct 31, 2026
Saurabh MukherjeaGUEST
India's boardrooms are now basically occupied or a majority occupied.
Saurabh MukherjeaGUEST
India's boardrooms are now majority occupied by the local Desi college
Nandita RajhansaHOST
graduate.
Saurabh MukherjeaGUEST
So elite education, membership of elite clubs in Bombay, Delhi, drinking gin and tonic, speaking the Queen's English, reading P.G. Woodhouse or Agatha Christie, that era is behind us.
Jasmeet RainaHOST
It's like 600 pages, a giant book.
Jasmeet RainaHOST
and it takes place in india in the 1970s and a little bit of like the beginning of the 80s and it's just like such a incredible encapsulation of like caste class um like what was happening in politics at the time and still is really relevant to today student life um uh friggin city life india life they see like just everything the uh uh the the the beggar system you know and like how there's beggar masters like there's so much in this book that's so i'm just trying to like say stuff that's not um spoiling it because i really think it's like one of the best books i've ever read so it's called the fine balance and it is like there's so many parts in that book when i was reading it it was like so gut-wrenching like so visceral so real about like what happens to certain um communities in india and like there's moments i just had to like stop reading because i was like holy this is this is freaking me up man it is so raw and it's just a masterpiece it's like a 10 out of 10 book it's a masterpiece and it's so so good and uh yeah it's i i don't know what to say without like spoiling it but um i i saw strong recommend like a lot of people that ask me like hey what's a good book i should read actually i I don't know if people have the stomach for this book, but I think every Desi person should read this book.
Jasmeet RainaHOST
I think it's that powerful of a book because there's so much thematically that's relevant today in terms of what's going on in politics and caste and class and everything.
Jasmeet RainaHOST
And it's just... it's such a visceral view on these communities and, and kind of like a very humanizing view on these communities.
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Jasmeet RainaHOST
Now I'm like doing all these things, but I'm like, I just see it.
Jasmeet RainaHOST
Like I was walking, even today I walked in and she was there at the front desk talking to the front desk guy, which shout out to my front desk guys.
Jasmeet RainaHOST
Most of them are all Desi and I love them and they're the best.
Jasmeet RainaHOST
And she was complaining about the daytime guy who's also Desi.
Asim BirneyHOST
So obviously you're going to say vanilla first, right? So the second one will define how Asian you are.
Asim BirneyHOST
So if you say chocolate, you've not been grown up in Desi culture because it has to be mango.
Asim BirneyHOST
Second favorite is always mango.
Asim BirneyHOST
And a white person or a Desi person grown up in the UK will never think of mango.
Asim BirneyHOST
It will always be chocolate.
Asim BirneyHOST
And then the third one will come.
Asim BerniHOST
So obviously you're going to say vanilla first, right? So the second one will define how Asian you are.
Asim BerniHOST
So if you say chocolate, you've not been grown up in Desi culture because it has to be mango.
Asim BerniHOST
Second favorite is always mango.
Asim BerniHOST
And a white person or a Desi person grown up in the UK will never think of mango.
Asim BerniHOST
It will always be chocolate.
Asim BerniHOST
And then the third one will come.
Hasan MinhajHOST
What's up with
Abdul El-SayedGUEST
this strategy? It's the Desi beta.
Hasan MinhajHOST
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Hasan MinhajHOST
No, you're talking about the other beta.
speaker_0HOST
But then there are some people that I've talked to, and I know a good amount of people, even in my own life, and even myself at times, that struggle with this a lot.
speaker_0HOST
I feel like decision-making and trusting the decision you make is really hard, right? Growing up in my family, I'll say from personal experience, like, I think in a lot of how it is, in a lot of Desi cultures and Desi families, like, And you kind of were told like a roadmap of your life, like how your parents think you should live your life.
speaker_0HOST
And that roadmap is obviously made from love, right? It's made from love on how they think you would succeed best.
speaker_0HOST
I know I have some friends who followed their parents' entire roadmap to the point of where they went from kindergarten to the degree they got in college to the job that they are working today and to how they're managing their finances.
MalvikaGUEST
They would never know how to answer.
MalvikaGUEST
But when aunties from India would, like, come and visit and, you know, talk to me, they'd be like, you know, you're very Desi.
MalvikaGUEST
Like, you're very Indian.
MalvikaGUEST
And so I think it's just that, like, yes, my language is very English.
Sanchali BasuHOST
Thank you.
Jawahar MalhotraHOST
So now let's focus in on our own Desi community here in Fort Bend.
Jawahar MalhotraHOST
Are you finding a lot of them are actually aware of your qualifications? and also
Surendran PattelGUEST
your accomplishments? I think so.
Sanchali BasuHOST
a better future for us.
Jawahar MalhotraHOST
That's very laudable because really we want the young minds to be aware of the capabilities that you have.
Jawahar MalhotraHOST
There are a lot of Desi students who come to you too?
Surendran PattelGUEST
Yes, it is across the board, but there are a lot of South Asian students came too.
Amrapali Soni RyanGUEST
We're Indian.
Amrapali Soni RyanGUEST
We're Desi.
Amrapali Soni RyanGUEST
We're supposed to get married and live this traditional life.
Amrapali Soni RyanGUEST
But similar to my dad, I didn't intend to join.
Allie TutichHOST
In response to JFK's role as a transport hub for the munitions that are going to aid in Israel's genocide, the Break the Chain campaign is working to stop companies from using civilian infrastructure as part of the supply chain.
John TarletonHOST
The Break the Chain campaign started as a project of New York City DSA and has since been endorsed by 15 organizations across the city, including Desi's Rising Up and Moving, or DRUM, Three United Autoworker, Union Locals, and NYC Educators for Palestine, among others.
John TarletonHOST
On Sunday, Break the Chain held an interfaith anti-war event at the 15th Street Quaker Meeting House, where a panel of various religious scholars and activists discussed the relationship between anti-war traditions and faith, and to call again for an arms embargo at JFK.
Allie TutichHOST
And now we are joined by the moderator of the event, Sander Hicks, as well as Sophie Golnik, an associate professor of social and cultural analysis at NYU, who is also an organizer with Break the Chain.
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