NPR’s Rhitu Chatterjee wrote about what Thanksgiving first meant to her as a student from India studying in the U.S. two decades ago — and what it means now.
I celebrated my first Thanksgiving in 2002. I'd arrived in the United States in August of that year to start graduate school at the University of Missouri, Columbia. A few months later, I was invited to my first Thanksgiving dinner at a house shared by two Indians, one American, two New Zealanders and their sweet black Labrador, named Willow.
I'd been missing my family terribly and was homesick. But over that first Thanksgiving meal, I forgot my homesickness. This coming together of a random group of people from different backgrounds and different corners of the globe, all away from their own families, momentarily cured my longings for home. I suddenly felt as if I belonged.
Years later, when I lived in Boston, I was put in charge of bringing, of all things, mango lassi, a cold, sweet drink made with mango pulp, sugar and yogurt, at the Thanksgiving dinner hosted by an American Jewish friend of mine and his Lebanese wife. My friend Ari and his wife, Ghinwa, both love the drink and thought its taste and rich orange color would be the perfect fit for this fall festival.
A year later, I was invited to a proper American Thanksgiving with American expats, hosted by the India correspondent of the, Annie Gowen. She had gone to great lengths to find a turkey, buying one at the American Embassy school for $145."Tradition doesn't come cheap!" Annie recently reminded me in a Facebook message.
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