Chennai To Chicago - Memoir Of A Software Engineer

<p>Is there anything permanent at all? Anything that I can lean on to in this world? What is life? What am I doing here? Growing up in the '90s in India hearing people going to States as software engineers I wondered why people were so crazy about America. Without the internet or the zillion TV channels we have today I had my own fantasies on States. Thanks to a Doordarshan Tamil serial in the '90s Marriage in Washington I remember as a teenager sitting in front of the television religiously every week with a yearning in my throat I should go to America someday. I didn't know how that would happen I had not even traveled in an Air-Conditioned compartment on a train. But I knew someday I will go to America. And that'someday arrived in the form of an admit in a US university with 100% scholarship and a monthly stipend. That began my wonderful coming of age experiences in the next 10 years of my life with numerous travels tribulations and life-changing experiences.</p>