IshqInABackpack.com co-creator and author Navdeep Singh Dhillon shares Our Kahani, from New York City to India.
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Our Kahani 2007
Our Kahani, 2013
Our Kahani
Our Kahani means Our Story, but I won’t ever call it that for the same reason I will never say What is your problem? instead of What is your funda? Or say chai-tea, or naan-bread. And if anyone translated IshqInABackpack as…
Our Kahani: The Story of ISHQ
This is really long. Just thought I’d warn you in case your time is valuable, like if you’re an obstetrician or midwife or an assassin, or something. Because those are the kinds of readers we attract. People with very little…
Navdeep: Our Kahani 2007
Sona and I started “talking” on the internet with no intention of getting married or even pursuing a long-distance relationship. She put up her ad on indiandating.com out of curiosity. I put mine up to spite an ex-girlfriend who wanted to “see what her options were.” I never got very many responses though. It may have had something to do with the eye-catching log line I used: Hairy Indian Male Seeks Financially Independent, Attractive Woman. Ugliness and caste no bar. Neither of us had actually paid for an account so we hid our email address in the free messages and then started writing each other rambling, long winded letters. Because we weren’t looking for anything, we let our guards down a bit and just let things happen. It started with letters, late night phone calls and ended with three weddings, an engagement, a pre-engagement, two receptions (one in california, one in New Jersey!) , and plenty of bhangra . . .