article_snippet: We spoke about similar experiences as Indian teenagers in the United States.
article_snippet: her father was not as stern but her father had a hard time watching her father little girl become "Americanized.
article_snippet: It happened to be run by an American missionary, Helen Benedict, who happened to meet my adoptive mother at the Indo-American Society.
article_snippet: my adoptive mother was honing my adoptive mother English speaking skills there.
article_snippet: Instead of growing up in harsh surroundings, I was raised in a professor's house.
article_snippet: There is not a day that goes by when I don't think about the life I might have led had it not been for that fateful meeting between an American missionary and a Bengali woman pining to become a mother.