August 15th 2015, while all my fellow Indians were celebrating the Independence Day, hoisting flags and singing patriotic songs, I took off to a place approximately 8000 miles away from home, to get my complete independence. With an edgy feeling, along with dismay and merriment, leaving behind my parents, my sister and everything else I was associated with for the past 22 years of my life. I felt like a frog who got lucky to be able to jump out of the well. The journey on th

Jai Jinendra, My name is Ashit Sanghvi from Mumbai, India. Currently living in Arlington, Texas. I completed my Masters in Bioengineering and currently doing my PhD in Bioengineering from University of Texas at Arlington. I would like share some of my experience being a jain at United States after coming here. I came to United States on August 2010. It was just a month before paryushan. This was not the first time that I was gonna follow paryushan for alone. But it was hard f

The day this girl came out of Mumbai consulate with her USA Visa approved in the second attempt, tears rolled down from her parents & her eyes when the happy parents hugged their beloved daughter with a mixed emotional feeling of sending their daughter miles away to fulfill her dreams. People said don’t send your daughter so far but they stood firm. They said just to keep her close to us for some time we cannot play with her future. With time running down the sand glass, this