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I e-mailed every Indian friend and acquaintance I had with my urgent request - and uncovered something I'd never even known existed before: an underground network of Indian women who deliver home-cooked food to homesick "desis" - people from the Indian subcontinent - in New York City.
NYT > Home Page By SHIVANI VORA 2011
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When Rajaratnam was snared, an article in the Daily Beast promptly talked about "the insularity" of desis on Wall Street, the "ethnic clubbiness."
Sandip Roy: "Every Bloody Indian Cooperated to Nail Me": The "Betrayal" of Raj Rajaratnam Sandip Roy 2011
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Not for ill-gotten gains but one that could have broken the glass ceiling, that could have nurtured, supported, and mentored other desis without thinking about national origin.
Sandip Roy: "Every Bloody Indian Cooperated to Nail Me": The "Betrayal" of Raj Rajaratnam Sandip Roy 2011
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Unfortunately at this time we have no way of seeing the contract because APEX scrubbed it from the internet and then went on a rampage against three web bloggers that did nothing more than post a link to the document on another blog that is run by desis.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Could APEX Be Investigated For H-1B Fraud? 2010
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Unfortunately at this time we have no way of seeing the contract because APEX scrubbed it from the internet and then went on a rampage against three web bloggers that did nothing more than post a link to the document on another blog that is run by desis.
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Unfortunately at this time we have no way of seeing the contract because APEX scrubbed it from the internet and then went on a rampage against three web bloggers that did nothing more than post a link to the document on another blog that is run by desis.
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KURWA: Ajmani says much later, American desis began breaking in to the rap game too.
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KURWA: Ajmani says much later, American desis began breaking in to the rap game too.
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KURWA: And we urban desis aren't alone in mixing our Hindi and our hip-hop.
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KURWA: And we urban desis aren't alone in mixing our Hindi and our hip-hop.
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