For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. India-born immigrant to suburban Carrollton, Texas. Childhood and education in Bangalore, Madurai, and other locations throughout India; 1994 arranged marriage to a family friend living in New Jersey; first impressions of the U.S.; enrollment in Rutgers University M.A. program in statistics; work in insurance industry; immigration bureaucracy; struggle to keep close ties with family in India; 2005 relocation to Dallas suburb; comparison and contrast of life in India, New Jersey, and Texas.