The South Asian Cultural Arms Race for Impressive Biodata

Srinivas Rao
13 min readJul 22, 2020

Anyone who has grown up as an Indian American knows it’s a culture of immense pressure, expectations, and judgment which comes from family members, peers, and community.

But there’s an opportunity cost to this.

I’ve always joked that when an Indian parent gives a motivational speech, it can be summed up one sentence.

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Srinivas Rao

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