Nupur Dave's Blog

Why NRIs Don’t Get A Job In India– Here are tricks to land a job!

NRIs get this idea of moving to India while showering and get into a sudden panic about finding job, “I NEED JOB NOW!” and run out of the shower, still wet, to open LinkedIn and panic apply. NRIs end up doing this 1. Email close friends in India.  2. THEN get the resume ready.  3. […]

Are you a homesick Desi student abroad, thinking about quitting? The only post you need to read.

I was crying uncontrollable tears during my first week as an MS student in the US. I had a cardboard box as a table because my flatmate tricked me into using my free furniture ticket to get a sofa for the living room. I was too young–unprepared to deal with the manipulation of mean girls. […]

NRIs Need to Stop Using Their Abroad Moral Values in India

Here’s a question for NRIs: Where would you walk abroad? Sidewalk Road It’s a no-brainer right. “Obviously Sidewalk. Like, DUHh”. It’s also the right thing to do. It’s also the rule of law “no jay-walking!”. It’s civic sense. It’s not even a question that would come to your mind. As an NRI visiting India, I […]

USA Offsite vs India Offsite

Google had the custom of an annual, company-wide ski trip during spring. My first ski trip was to Vermont in 2008— a combined offsite with the Atlanta and NYC office. But that’s not why I remember it. I remember it because my mouth froze in the frigid snowboarding air, and I had to plier my […]

Radio Interview: Bharat FM

My interview with Bharat FM with RJ Aashish Jha RJ Aashish went through my life journey and some key takeaways You might not get what you want, and that’s a good thing Persistence pays (my journey to Atlanta from Blacksburg) Including women in sports Why Google is a great company & many other companies are […]

YOUTUBE: Are NRIs Stingy?

In this video I discuss: are NRIs really miserly and don’t spend? How can NRIs live a better life? Are NRIs in FAANG companies really living upto their standards? Watch the whole video! CHAPTERS 0:00 intro 0:12 Story of taxi ride 1:28 Why are NRIs always saving? [Reasons: A +B: Mental accounting, C: Feeling of […]

Social Life of NRIs After the Return to India

While living abroad I had like 1 million friends. After moving to India, I went down to like 4 friends. What happened? Did the art of making friends leave me? Is everyone above 30 an aunty?

The 58 percenter: The Indian co-worker from a tier 3 college

Through my college and career, I was surrounded by academically high-up-there kind of people. At Google, my friends were BITs top-of-class, IIT top-of-class, JEE digit rankers, on-the-way-to-being-VP friends, and friends with MBAs from Harvard, Stanford and all the fancy back-of-car-sticker colleges you can think of. So you can’t blame me for my surprise, while I […]

8 Ways Single NRIs Can Cure Loneliness ��� The Only Article NRIs Need!

Loneliness is a crippling and under-explored problem of single NRI���s, so much, it needs HUGE PROBLEM to be written in caps. It makes NRIs cry, slip into depression, feel anxiety during trips, look needy, be on call with family at hours, and make friends with the ���wrong��� people.

8 Ways Single NRIs Can Cure Loneliness — The Only Article NRIs Need!

Loneliness is a crippling and under-explored problem of single NRI’s, so much, it needs HUGE PROBLEM to be written in caps. It makes NRIs cry, slip into depression, feel anxiety during trips, look needy, be on call with family at hours, and make friends with the “wrong” people.