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Hi, I am r2iing to India in June 2008 after being away for 3 years. As I was employed in a US company, I was filing US taxes and not Indian taxes for the last 3 years (prior to that, I had worked in India and paid taxes in India) My query is that when I go back to India, will i start filing returns ...

Friends I have a couple of questions from all of you Now suppose I have transfered 40 lakhs to my Indian bank account from the US before r2i ing. This is a NRE account. Now I r2I and take up a job which pays me 10 lakhs pa. My questions 1) I understand that after I land in India, I will have to ...

I have been trying to pinpoint if there are any common threads in what makes us feel like an outsider? Is it not knowing old American TV shows, is it incomplete knowledge of sports, is it a basic incompatibility of cultures, is it the color of the skin?? I cant pinpoint the actual reason but I do ...

friends, sorry for not posting about my meeting earlier. i owe a lot to this forum for all your best advice to me. About the meeting; i had called both of them on a conference room on the pretext on discussing an IT issue. we started with small talk about the weather, some stuff about the office etc ...

Thanks Desi. I concur with your analysis. I also spent a good deal of time thinking about this over the weekend and decided that I should not ignore this ( because it affected me - guess it would be a good option to ignore it for a person who was not affected by it). I booked a half hour meeting 4 ...

[quote=rudra;39014][COLOR=red]They were saying demeaning things in a bad Indian accent like "Hi, My name is (my name), I am Indian, I dont use deodorant, I dont know English, I am Hindooooo" and much more..[/COLOR] [COLOR=red][COLOR=black]Arent you all being bad by consoling some prejudice ...

[quote=RRK;38681] The last thing an indian can do is complaining about discrimination outside India. Let us just do some home work before working overseas. Like some one said, here, if you felt hurt by discimination, look at the "magical mirror" and see the discriminations we have done to others ...

thanks you all for your words. of course, there is no right or wrong way to reflect which is reflected in your replies, with some of you vehemently supporting a confrontation and others suggesting I brush it off. i think i will just wait for the day to end and think hard over the weekend. at this ...

thank you for all your advice. this is something i will not beable to discuss with the wife ( i don't know why but i feel violated and know what she will be very hurt too) so it feels great to have a support group on the net in bad times i realize that it is not a big deal - and i should probably ...

I really wish I cud do that - but I am a contractor here and they are permanent employees. It will be just their word against mine since I do not have any prood they said those things about me. Even if everybody believes me, I think I will lose even the casual acquaintances / friends I have here ...