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Oh, there's the recording it started.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=0.0,3.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Yep. So, yep. We've started the recording. Okay. So do you agree to the terms and conditions outlined in the Queens memory informed consent and copyright permission form that I shared with you over email?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=3.0,15.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=15.0,17.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Okay. Now this is Sara Fiorenza with, uh, Siddharth Malviya. Is that correct?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=17.0,25.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: That's correct. You can just call me Sid though.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=25.0,27.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Okay. Okay. Awesome. We are recording on, uh, June 7th, 2021 for the Queens memory project. Could you say your full name and then spell it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=27.0,38.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Sure thing. My full name is Siddharth Malviya and the spelling is S I D D H A R T H. Last name M A L V I Y A","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=38.0,52.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Thank you so much. So now we can proceed with the interview. Um, the theme of the interview is, um, you know, home away from home, uh, the immigrant community in Eastern Queens. So we're going to be talking about, uh, your life in Eastern Queens. Could you tell us when and where you were born?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=52.0,73.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Sure. Um, what do you call? I was born in late December of 1999, and I was actually born a couple of blocks from here. And, um, what do you call it? It used to be called Long Island Jewish hospital, but it's since been changed to Northwell though. I'm not sure if they adopted a hybrid version of the names, but it's Northwell now. Um-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=73.0,91.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Oh Okay LIJ.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=91.0,94.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yup.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=94.0,94.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Okay so where did you grow up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=94.0,97.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: I actually grew up right around here, right near, um, the Glen Oaks library. This has been my home for the past 21 years, which makes me a little bit sad because I'm moving upstate to go to graduate school. But, um, I've lived here my entire life. I went to elementary school here at PS, 115. I went to middle school here MS 172. For high school I went a little bit out of our neck of the woods. I went to Bayside, but it was still, I still, nevertheless I commuted back and forth and you know, I got rides from my dad to go to high school, but I really grew up right around here seeing all the people in the neighborhood. Um, and I really just loved the sense of community. Um, especially some of the small nuances, you know, just seeing the same people at Key Food. I mean, Key Food, used to be called Waldbaum's, but you know what I'm saying? The thing that seemed, people keep food at Walgreens, at the pharmacy, at the McDonald's, Dunkin and you know, these are just people around town who recognize you and you feel a sense of belonging and it's just really great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=97.0,148.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: That's so great. Were your, were your parents, were parents born here or were they born in another country?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=148.0,154.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: My parents were born in India, so they came here. I want to say mid 1990s. Um, my parents came here a little bit after they had my sister. My sister for context is six years older than me. So she was born in 93. Um, they came to New York in the mid nineties and they stayed with, um, my father's brothers somehow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=154.0,174.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Okay. Very cool. Very cool. That's so funny. Your sister is actually my age. I was born in the 90's, 1993 as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=174.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: No worries.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=180.0,183.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Do you have any other siblings besides your sister?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=183.0,185.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: No, just my sister, but you know, I, I do have a great sibling bond with my cousin who, um, what do you call it? So funny story. So my mom and my dad, so my aunt and uncle are actually my mom's sister and my dad's brother. So I kind of have a really close sibling relationship with, um, with my cousin, because pretty much I grew up with her for most of the time we've always texted and you know, our family's just super close.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=185.0,212.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: That's really awesome. Okay, cool. So do you have a lot of cousins or-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=212.0,216.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Oh, no, I'm just the one. Um, I have cousins in India, but I'm not too close with them, but what do you call it? I'm very close with, um, just the one cousin. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=216.0,223.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: And they're in the same area as well. Glen Oaks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=223.0,227.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Uh, yeah, we actually grew up in the same area though. My cousin had to move to Texas. Um, what do you call it with her family and, um, but she did eventually come back to the neighborhood, surprisingly. So she's a dermatologist and she's chief resident over at Northwell. Um, and she, what do you call when she had the opportunity to come back home and she just, you know, jumped for it because you know, this community really just it's special. That's what I'll say. Cause I can go on yammering on and on and on about it, but it's special. No-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=227.0,254.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: That's really great actually. Um, you know, to be surrounded by people, you know, like, you know, have your own sense of community, you know, not everyone has that. I know I have friends that also live in like Texas and Georgia and a little bit more spaced out than we are here in New York. Um.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=254.0,268.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Sure you're not going to find any sidewalks in Texas. You need a car or your doomed speaking from personal experience when I had to hitchhike across the highway just to get from one part of town to the other.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=268.0,280.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Yeah. it's it's hard, you're not as, as close. Um, so it's, it's nice here. Uh, another question I wanted to ask are, cause we're going to talk about holidays a little bit. Are you religious at all or your parents, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=280.0,293.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yeah. Moderately religious. Um, my parents are, what do you call it far more religious than I am, obviously, because they've had so much more experience with, you know, um, with Hinduism and they've been practicing it their entire lives for me, you know, what do you call it? I've been, I say moderately religious because I always participate in holiday as I always participate in, you know, prayers is when it's time in the morning or, you know, as the Hindi word for it is Arthi. Um, but then again, college and life and school always comes and you know, I don't, I don't have too much time for it, but I always try to make time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=293.0,323.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Right. Okay. Yeah. So, so they're, they're Hindi and you, your family is Hindi.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=323.0,328.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=328.0,328.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Is, um, practice Hinduism. Okay. Very cool. Very cool. Do you have, um, places of worship in Glen Oaks?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=328.0,335.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: I, I, yes we do. Um, we have, they have a new temple by, um, it's a couple blocks behind the 7-Eleven on Union Turnpike, but we usually go, well, when it's time for a group prayers or at least before the pandemic, we didn't go during the pandemic at all, but we went to um on Hillside Avenue. They have plenty of Hindu temples or as they're called Mandirs. Um, we've always went there and growing up, we've always went to temples really around New York, around not around New York, but around Queens. Really.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=335.0,364.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Okay. That's great. It's nice. And it's close. It's local.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=364.0,367.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yes. Yep.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=367.0,369.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: That's great. All right, so we're going to go dip into school. So, um, you said you always gone to school around here, um, for elementary school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=369.0,377.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=377.0,378.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Okay. Would you [recording glitch] do you mind telling us what school that was?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=378.0,382.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Sure. Um, I went to PS 115. Um, it was, what do you call it? It was really a wonderful experience and you know, what do you call it? Luckily, the resources that were at that school are great. I hope it's still great. And I hope the school still has the same, if not more funding than it does because, you know, I will say elementary school. I know from being a psychology major that, you know, childhood has such a significant impact on, you know, your later stages of life and how you handle conflict and you know, how you handle things. And we'll say going to the elementary school was a godsend because you know it, what do you call it? It was just wonderful. There, there wasn't any, you know, it wasn't too chaotic at all. You know, the only chaos was all bringing home a 90, if anything, or not bringing home a 95 tests, you know? Cause my parents had very high standards.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=382.0,425.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Oh, that's what I was going to ask. What kind of student were you? It sounds like you were a really good student.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=425.0,430.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yeah. So what do you call it? So from a very young age, you know, as is common with Asian cultures, I was, you know, there was a high emphasis on academia in my household. So, you know, I was always taught from very young age, that academics is the way to go in life and that studying will bring you prosperity. Studying will bring you, um, you know, a wonderful career and that it's important to work hard, you know, or as I like to colloquially summarize it, you know, you spend your entire twenties and you know, your teenage years buried in a book. So that way you can get a repeat in your thirties, you know, when you have your career, that's how I like to put it so that that's still the kind of student I am. You know, I'm very thankful to my mom, my dad for giving me these, you know, values of always placing, studying as the number one. So-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=430.0,475.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: That's so great. And that's exciting. Cause you mentioned you're going to grad school too, as you're pursuing higher education. Um, how so can I ask you, what was your favorite subject?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=475.0,484.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Let's see my previous subject, you know, um, growing up or my favorite subject in college?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=484.0,489.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Uh, how about both? So growing up first and then what did you really like in college?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=489.0,493.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Sure. So growing up, what do you call, funny enough I wanted to be an astronomer, like not an astronaut, but an astronomer. Somebody who has studied the stars. I used to be really obsessed with the star patterns and the planet. And you know, what do you call? I will say I was a tiny bit defensive of Pluto, but you know, seeing that now, I guess Pluto's not part of the solar system anymore, but um, growing up, I really loved astronomy and I thought in science in general, I had an interest in science in the beginning. Um, and that continued on throughout middle school, middle school. My favorite subject was chemistry. I remember I used to, it was general chemistry is to find a really big fascination with atoms electrons and neutrons, the whole thing. Um, in high school, my favorite subject was actually psychology.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=493.0,534.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: That's where I, you, um, grew my passion for psychology and sort of narrowed down. Hmm. I would really love to do a career in this, this sound, something that you know is actually kind of novel, you know? Um, and it sounds like something that's getting de-stigmatized by the day. So, um, when I got to college, my favorite subjects ended up being, you know, the psychology courses I took and believe it or not organic chemistry, which, you know, just for context, I'm a pre-med student. Organic chemistry is one of the required courses, but organic chemistry was one of my favorite subjects. I did not do, so it's a two semester course. So the first semester didn't do too great. But the second semester I came bouncing back and you know, I just fell in love with the subject and I used to doodle it all over my notepads and you know, everybody would always notice. And I would basically talk about organic chemistry all the time. So that's when my transition of favorite subjects from elementary school to college.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=534.0,583.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: That's actually, that's really awesome props to you. Organic chemistry is very hard. Uh, I've taken it cause I'm into botany. So you need to take a lot of chemistry classes. Um, that's really great. So you're pre-med so you're going your career goal. What, uh, what is your end goal for your career? You want, you want to be a psychologist?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=583.0,602.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: I'm going to call it sort of, so I actually want to be an addiction psychiatrist. So my career goal is I actually want to go to medical school. And what do you call? I also want to go law school and I'll talk a little bit about that in a second, but I really want to do addiction psychiatry because you know, I've volunteered at, um, a pediatric clinic in Texas, which is, you know, as you might've known, I mentioned earlier about how Texas hospital sidewalks. That was what I was talking about. I volunteered at, um, at a pediatric clinic and an underserved community in East Dallas. Um, and at that community I saw just how, just how not desperate, but um, how necessary it is for communities like that to have resources, especially minority communities. And I saw that some of the teenagers were, um, some of the patients I should actually say were struggling with addiction and it, it just opened me up to a new reality because I grew up in sort of, um, a sheltered community here because in Glen Oaks, you know, this sort of thing, isn't too common, you know, um, you don't see a lot of prevalent disease.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=602.0,659.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: It's I think the most prevalent disease you might find it's may be allergies or asthma or something. But, um, when I went to East Dallas and I would see these communities and just, and just how are the teenagers, um, and for the patients who came in, you know, it was kind of a complexity for me because one, you actually have to explain to the teenager that this is going on to them because for them, you know, what do you call it? Addiction is a coping mechanism. And then you also have to explain it to the parent because at a pediatric clinic behind every patient, or I like to say two more patients, meaning the parents, or maybe just one patient, if it's a single parent coming in, but that's what sort of nudge me in the direction of wanting to do addiction psychiatry, because it's a new field.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=659.0,699.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: And I thought this is something that would definitely impact a lot of people as addiction is getting destigmatized because, you know, from biological point of view addiction, isn't a choice. It's just something that happens after your body gets biologically rewired. And it forces you to keep on, you know, taking drugs at a high consumption rate and, you know, putting it into your body in the process. Anyway, um, addiction psychiatry is my end game, but, um, and I realized that because medicine is a very, um, what do you call it? Medicine is dominated by so many policies and so many laws. And I just thought if I can better serve my patients by, you know, getting a stronger education and, you know, even though it will take lots of years of schools, I thought it should be definitely worth it. So medical school courses as a whole, you know, um, gambit in and of itself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=699.0,744.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: But I also thought it would be wise to get, um, a graduate education in public health, which is what I'm doing. So I'm getting my MPH, um, later this year at Dartmouth. And I'm hoping to, after that, um, do a dual MD JD program. So one for medical school, one for law, because I think if I can get a better understanding of the bigger picture and what the laws are surrounding healthcare, um, and in exchange, if I can help my future patients that way, you know, I'm willing to do as many years of school as it takes if in the long run, it'll benefit more people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=744.0,777.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: That's amazing. That's, that's actually wonderful. Um, I don't know if you know, there's, there's a methadone clinic around, um, it was opened a few years ago around Glen Oaks actually, um, to help people, um, safely, you know, I, I'm not sure how it works at the clinic. I know that they go there to get safe injections because diseases are so, you know, prevalent when you're sharing needles and, you know, things like that. So it's yeah, so that's, and you know, we see how it affects our community. So it's, that's an amazing career to follow. And I, I love how you thought about law and how it affects the medical community. So that's, that's a really good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=777.0,816.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: For sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=816.0,817.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Did you have like a teacher that really influenced you with, with this path or you have anyone in particular, like in college or high school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=817.0,827.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Let's see a teacher that influenced me with this path. That's a very good question. I have had great teachers. I will say it wasn't so much great teachers. Um, um, what do you call it? Not that they were all horrible, but for me it was more so my experiences and extracurriculars actually nudged me this way. Um, one was the clinic, which I, which I just mentioned. And the other one was actually my year in student government. So my junior year at Queens college, I was student government vice president. And the funny thing is, is that when you get the job, you think, you know, oh my God, I'm hot stuff. I just got sworn in and I'm going to do great. And then, you know, you got your seat at the table and it's like, you're speaking English, but you're very, very confused because, you know, um, when you're a student government vice-president you, by virtue of your seat, you get, um, your position on many administrative boards and these administrative boards handle the money for school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=827.0,873.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Anyway, um, I caught my interest for law and policy because I would sit at those meetings. And initially in June, which was when I started my term in 2019, I was like, what are they saying? You know, I want to understand this. So I started to delve more into it. I started to read the bylaws, the policies, the administrative procedures, and as a result people came to recognize me as the go-to person anytime you had a policy question and, you know, I like to be in position because it was like, you know, people recognize that I actually did my due diligence. So that's sort of where I developed my propensity for law and policy, because I recognize that by understanding the policies there, I was actually able, so my constituents were primarily the student leaders on campus and I nav and I navigated trying to get bigger budgets for them, which I was able to do after reading all the policies and law.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=873.0,917.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: So that's where I got nudged in the law direction and the medicine direction. What really came from my experience, volunteering in the clinic. And I started volunteering at the clinic because I was just like, Hmm, I don't know what I want to do, but I know it's something related to healthcare. So the those were the thoughts flowing in my head. And then, you know, in, in the beginning of high school, I was like, all right, I'm going to take my summer breaks and any break that I can get to volunteer there. So that's how the medicine and law thing came about.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=917.0,943.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Oh, okay, cool. How did you, uh, get towards the track of health care? Did your parents influence you at all or anyone like that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=943.0,951.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Hmm. So what do you call it? My parents did moderately influenced me. So my mom was a nurse for, um, what do you call it? But when I was born, she decided to stay home, but she was growing up. She would always tell me about her nursing friends and some of the cool patients she had. And that, that was a moderate influence there. My dad, however, what he call, he works in the administrative, um, nursing and in the healthcare and that whole system. So, you know, um, growing up, I would listen to him talk about it, but I was just like, administration does not sound fun. So, um, you know, he was sort of a moderate influence and, you know, everyone from my family pretty much has something to do in healthcare. Um, my aunt is OB GYN, but now she, she co-owns a pediatric clinic with her husband and my uncle is a pediatrician.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=951.0,994.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: So, um, I did get influences from my family because I just saw the, you know, I think it's noble to want to wake up every day and actually want to make a difference as opposed to, you know, indulging in whatever it is you want to do. Um, what do you call not to say that other careers are bad, however but, you know, I just, I, from a very young age, I just saw the value of empathizing with somebody else and doing what was necessary in order to take care of someone. So my parents did influence me in that way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=994.0,1023.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Yeah. Yeah. That's fantastic. It sounds like you have a lot of people in healthcare around you and that's, that's a really great influence. Um, that's fantastic. Especially after the past year we've had seeing how vital healthcare workers are. Um, so then I guess the next few questions are general questions. Um, we'll probably work back to your, your parents. I wanted to ask, do you know where in India, both of your parents are from?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1023.0,1047.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yes. So my mom was, was born in, um, Allahbhad, but I think they changed the town name, but the old town name, um, is spelled A L L A H B H A D. Um, and it's in the state of UP or the, the, um, the full name is Uttar Pradesh. Um, so that's, my mother was born and my father was born in central India. Um, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1047.0,1074.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Okay. How did they meet? Did they meet here or did they meet over there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1074.0,1078.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: So they what do you call it, they meant India. So, um, as my mother likes to describe it, so she said that one day, um, she received a letter in the mail and it was from my dad. And what do you call? And, um, my dad had mentioned that, you know, my dad, basically in India, I will say getting married and getting in a relationship does not follow the same social cultural rules that we have, you know, here in the United States. So it's very, very odd over there. So, you know, through my perspective being raised here, so apparently it was just a bunch of letter writing in the beginning. And then eventually, what do you call it? They fell in love and then they just got married and that sort of process actually happens rather. Um, like the process of getting married actually happened very quickly. Dating is not a thing in India at least, you know, in the conservative days, it wasn't out there arguably still conservative but anyway. Um, what do you call it? The way it works in India is that, you know, when you meet somebody, you sort of get married very, very quickly. I mean, they, you speed up that process along, but there are a whole bunch of rules about who you can and can't marry. And what do you call that? I can probably write a PhD dissertation on, but-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1078.0,1144.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Yeah, right. Oh, okay. That's really interesting. So they got married over there and then they came here. Do you know why they chose to come here? 1) To the United States and then 2) to the Glen Oaks area?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1144.0,1157.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Okay, sure. So, um, I can say my mom did not want to move. My mom very much loved India, and she thought there were lots of promise there to raise your children, but my dad insisted on it. My dad saw the value of having an American education and also having, um, what do you call it? And also having a higher quality of life in America, because, you know, in India, there are a lot of social dynamics that are very, very difficult to navigate. And as a result it can make for a difficult life, if you want to have children. And in general, the culture has a lot of complexities to work around. So my dad insisted on moving to America because, you know, like I just mentioned education and also the better quality of life. So for the first couple of years, though, he did not have that great of a quality of life because, um, what do you call it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1157.0,1202.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: He worked day and night, 24 hours just to put food on the table. He would get odd jobs, as many as you can. Security guard, working as cashier, doing whatever he could so that he could provide for my mom and I, um, and my sister. So, um, in the beginning it wasn't great. But then after a while he went to nursing school, he got a degrees and you know, now he has a stable and steady career. So I guess I can tell him now that it was worth it, or I guess he can recognize himself that it was worth it to come to the United States.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1202.0,1231.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: That's amazing. That's amazing. A lot of people start over because they're there, you know, I have a lot of friends that told me their parents come here and their degrees don't carry over. So what they, their career in India was different than their career here, because they had to start over. Yeah. That's, that's amazing. That's, that's, I, I always say, like, I couldn't imagine doing that, but so many people, you know, make that jump. And as you said, it ended up turning out really well for your dad in the long run. It sounds like. Um, so then I wanted to ask, uh, why, why Glen Oaks, because you had family here or because the community was, you know, more suited to your family or-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1231.0,1268.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Oh, Glen Oaks, what do you call it? This is actually a very funny story. So I'll tell you, well, it's moderately funny, I'll say so. Um, initially my, um, we lived in Glen Oaks, starting out in, what do you call it? So my, um, my dad's brother, IE my uncle, he owned, um, he owned a house. What do you call it? He had been to America, I think at least a couple of years before. So he had gotten settled and everything, but, you know, they didn't have too much of a great relationship. And as a result, what do you call? My dad literally had to pay rent in order to live in that basement. Um, and you know, and then eventually when I was born, um, which was 99. So they had lived in the basement if I want to say one to two years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1268.0,1305.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: And you know, my mom raised my sister there in the beginning, but anyway, um, when I was born, what do you call it? Um, my dad was just like, all right, we have two kids. So we need to like, actually get a house. And we know we need to, you know, um, we need to provide for our children. So, um, we had, you know, been in the Glen Oaks area because, you know, because of my uncle, but, um, I guess what made my mom want to stay here was one the diversity and two, um, what do you call it? So when my dad took my mom house hunting, the very first house that she saw was this one that we're currently residing in and Glen Oaks. And because she had been living in a basement and, you know, for one to two years, you know how, when you put up with the absolute worst, literally anything that's a couple notch above looks absolutely wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1305.0,1349.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1349.0,1351.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: So it's like, you know, it's like when you take, when you take a single shot espresso and it tastes absolutely better. And then you're just like, all right, let me add a little, little bit, a little bit of milk on, I, I need, I can't speak English. I need my coffee, but, um, that's sort of the feeling. So the first time she saw she was, um, she fell in love with, and she was just like, all right, this is great. And my dad is just like, you sure you don't want to see any other houses? Like, you know, this might get a little bit smaller. She just like, no, this is great. I'm fine. Let's buy this one. And then they both, you know, sign the deed and that's how we ended up staying in Glen Oaks because my mom was just like, all right, this is a great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1351.0,1387.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: One stop shop. I, that that's actually really, that is funny. But I do understand how after, you know, living in a basement, anything, anything will look great after that, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1387.0,1396.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yup!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1396.0,1396.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Um, so, but do they, do they like the neighborhood? Do you guys, um, in general, like the neighborhood of Glen Oaks and what if so, like, what's the, what's the thing you like most about Glen Oaks?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1396.0,1407.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Oh, for sure. We love neighborhood of Glen Oaks. Um, one the, excuse me, the one, the diversity, um, it's, it's nice seeing, you know, representation from all walks of life, not what do you call it? I mean, for me personally, I wouldn't want to live in just neighborhood was 100% people who look like me. I would want to see diversity people from all sorts of groups and that's what we really saw in the beginning. So I guess for me personally, one of my favorite things about the neighborhood was, um, and I think this is a very cliche answer, but the people, and I'll tell you why, because growing up around, what do you call it? The people downtown, which is near Union Turnpike, where the library is that has basically felt like home. And, um, I'll tell you a couple experiences. So in high school, I knew that I needed to volunteer, you know, because of college applications and you want to, and, and you want to show that you're, you know, unique applicant.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1407.0,1454.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: And for me, I thought, you know, let me, let me just show them my, you know, roots in this community. So I went to Ms. Kim, who you probably know, um, and went to Ms. Kim was like, hi, Ms. Kim, you've known me for awhile. I would like to volunteer. Ms. Kim's like, sure, no problem. And you know, from there, what do you call it? I volunteered. And I started out in the homework helper program and, you know, I would tutor elementary, middle school kids on, you know, and help them out with their homework. And I would teach them, um, I would also do clerical work and I would come in and Ms. Kim would be like, Hey, can you sort these out? Can you put, you know, um, these wrappers on these DVDs, just little things here and there. So it was really nice to what do you call it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1454.0,1490.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Feel like I was doing something impactfully. No, no matter how small it was. And that was one of the things I appreciated about being here. The other thing was, I guess you could say this is kind of minor, but the casual interactions with, um, with people around the shopping outlet. I don't know if you've ever, if you have ever seen the show Gilmore Girls, but, um, essentially this, oh, you've seen it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1490.0,1512.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1512.0,1514.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Oh, so it's basically, you know, how the small town of Stars Hollow is like where everybody knows each other and it's very comfortable. That's kind of the, you know, the aura that I get, that I get when I think of Glen Oaks, because, you know, I'll go into Walgreens and I'll know, I'll see, um, some of the people I typically know and, you know, it'll just be small talk and we'll have a small conversation, but it kind of gives you that sense of belonging.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1514.0,1533.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: And that's what I just love about, um, growing up in Glen Oaks in general, that everybody sort of knows each other, not too much because you know, you know, the whole New Yorker stereotype that raw, cold, and we're all just trying to get to where we want to go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1533.0,1545.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Oh yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1545.0,1545.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yeah. It's not, it's not as cold in Glen Oaks, but it's, it's, it's lukewarm or moderately warm I'll say. So I hope that sort of encapsulated what I was trying to say. It came across a little bit messy, but I hope that, um, sort of depicts why I love this town so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1545.0,1563.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: No, that makes a lot of sense. I also, I live in a small, I live in Floral Park, actually. I live right next to Glen Oaks. Um, so, and it's also a very small town and I get that feeling of, you mentioned Stars Hollow where, you know, I don't know everyone in Floral Park, but I see a lot of familiar faces and that's a, that's a really nice feeling. A lot of people wouldn't suspect that from New York, from like, if I said like, oh yeah, I love my tiny area in Queens. They're like, what Queens is huge. And I'm like, yeah, but I don't live everywhere in Queens. I live in one area and-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1563.0,1593.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Literally.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1593.0,1593.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Yeah, exactly. I, you know, I know. Um, so, and I, I totally get that the, the shopping center you're talking about, the, the Dunkin, the McDonald's, the Key Food.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1593.0,1603.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: That area right near the library, that whole outlet. That is where I, I, I will say very, uh, what do you call it globally? That's kind of where I felt like I was born and raised, like literally like near that outlet, because through the years I've seen all those stores change and my mom, you know, what do you call it? So my dad has a car and the reason why I've been there so often is because my dad, we only have one car in the house, even though I had my license, but we only have one car in the house. So my dad will always use the car to go to work. So as a result of my mom and I, you know, the only place where we can really go is walking distance or Uber, but Uber is kind of pricey and especially with the surge during the pandemic. But anyway, um, you know, the only places we could go was walking distance. So we always walked back and forth between the home and the shopping outlet. And, you know, that's really felt like home away from home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1603.0,1645.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Nice. Nice. Um, so I wanted to ask you, you know, since you, you talked so fondly about Glen Oaks, do you have like a favorite memory, um, within your town? Do you have like a favorite moment?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1645.0,1658.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: A favorite moment? Um-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1658.0,1661.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Maybe around the holidays, anything like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1661.0,1664.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Favorite moment? Um, I guess a couple of my favorite moments were, um, there were some of the library and there were actually some kind of not, so what do you call spectacular ones at the, I mean, compared to the library ones, um, some of my favorite memories were I used to volunteer around the holiday times, and I think my favorite memories, whereas when in between, um, you know, the homework tutoring sessions that we used to have at the library on the second floor, you know, where the children's floors on the second floor in that conference room, that's where we used to do the homework tutoring thing around the holidays time. Um, there was just this real festivity. And what do you call it? And a little bit about me. I am a sucker for Christmas, like Christmas, anything really, you know, when it comes to the candy cane, coffee flavors or the peppermint, or, you know, chocolate everywhere, the snow theme, basically anything that has to be tacky with Christmas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1664.0,1711.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: That is what I am in love with Mariah Carey all day. But, um, what do you call it around the holidays times and Glen Oaks I would say, I think the year was 2018 and yeah 2018 and 2017. Those are my favorite memories of, um, Glen Oaks. What do you call it? Just having everybody band together. And, you know, um, I think, what do you call? We didn't do gift exchanges, but we just really exchanged all these stories and it seemed kind of minor, you know, in retrospect, but those were one of my favorite memories. The other favorite memories I have where, um, you know, there's that moment when you go to the same coffee shop all the time, and then eventually they start recognizing you. One of my favorite memories was around holidays times the people at Dunkin would, uh, would recognize my mom and I, and they would, what do you call? And around the holiday times, um, there was this one day it's always one day each year, or maybe a couple of days each year they'll recognize us and there'll be the holidays and they'll be like, all right, your coffees are free. It's okay. We know you like, you know, happy holidays, enjoy the, enjoy the new year as, as it starts to come in. So I guess those moments.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1711.0,1773.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: That's really nice. I wanted to ask you like Christmas, right. So even though you're Hindu, do you celebrate, or is it just like the fun of it or-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1773.0,1784.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: We don't celebrate it too much, although what do you call it? There are some American customs that I do try to, you know, what do you call it? Impinge on my mom, just like, all right, let's just do some of the gift giving. Although actually my birthday is three days before Christmas. So it's kind of, not as kind of know, there aren't two rounds of gifts per se, because, you know, I mainly just got the gifts on my birthday, but, um, I just really love basking in, I guess, the aura of it, if that makes sense. You know, I just love how everything seems so homey and everything seems so warm, and there's this real desire to connect to somebody, especially during the holidays. Um, and I think that's what makes for a lot of movies and TV shows probably. But, um, yeah, I hope that answered the question. I feel like [unclear] tangent.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1784.0,1827.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: No, I totally, I understand. I have, um, another friend she's also Hindi, but they put up the tree cause they like it. They liked the way it looks. So-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1827.0,1834.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yeah, same here. Same here. I like, I like putting up the tree and especially ya know picking out a new tree skirt every year. We don't do the whole stocking thing because what do you call? We don't have a fireplace and plus, um, what do you call? I don't know where exactly you would put it, but, um, yeah, just having things be decorated and be festive. That's what I want to do because you know, in, in the beginning, I will say growing up in elementary school, you like, you know how they tell you about Christmas and everything. And I come home and I would see the house not decorated. And I would be like, mom, like you have to do something. And my mom initially was very resistant to it. But then later on in high school, I finally wore her down and she was like, all right, you can decorate the house. Just don't make it too ugly. And I was like, excuse me, I have Pinterest. And I have the internet and I have the genetic ability to manipulate the internet. So we are going to make the place look great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1834.0,1879.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: That's, that's fantastic. Actually. That's really funny. Um, you know, so, so you said your mom was resistant. Do you guys celebrate like, like Hindi holidays? Like, um, like Diwali or Holi or-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1879.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: For sure. Um, yeah. So when its Diwali time, what do you call it? The entire family comes over and well not the entire. We have very small families when I say entire family. I mean, my sister, because she's always at school or the work or something throughout the years, so she'll come over and what do you call it, she just got engaged. So she'll bring her, she's going to bring her fiance over this year. But anyway, um, we'll always celebrate, it will light up a bunch of, um, candles or as the Hindi word for it is called diyas um, which is also coincidentally the Spanish word for day. But, um, well we'll light a bunch of candles. We'll do the usual prayer and then we'll, we'll, um, exchange sweets and you know, we'll worship. And what do you call it? The holidays are actually very straightforward. Um, we also like um for holi actually, my mom does not like the mess and neither do I.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1890.0,1936.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: What do you call? I [unclear] from her. So throwing around the colors, what do you call it? Give me massive OCD. I would feel very, very uncomfortable, which is also, which also explains why I don't like, I'm not an outdoors person. I'm an indoors person, so we moderately do it. So we'll take a small bit of powder and like, we'll just toss it and we'll be like, okay, there we go. I have activities done. But the worship part is the main part. Um, yeah, some other holidays are like there's Navratri, which is basically when my mom does the nine day fast. I don't because if I, what do you call it? If I do not get food in me, I am going to be very hangry. But, um, she does the whole 9 fasting thing and yeah, we do. What do you call it? Where my mom was very, um, very religious. So we do all the holidays every year round.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1936.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: That's really nice. Do you, do you notice if the community as well, like Glen Oaks, do you notice that the community takes part in a lot of these holidays or is it, is it more just you guys, do you feel like, um, you know, when, when Christmas rolls around, so you see like the whole community change? Um, I lived, you know, I've have friends live near the Five Towns. So when, um, September and October rolls around, that's when a lot of Jewish holidays are the whole community changes. Do you feel, um, that in Glen Oaks?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=1980.0,2011.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: I mean, what do you call, not too much, I mean, I'll see it from the people going around, you can identify, what do you call it? You can sort of see some of the, um, what do you call it? Older Indian women. And you can see 'em if they have a [unclear] which is basically the, um, the red dot on the forehead. And that's when I can see some symbols of culture on neighborhood, but for the most part, really, um, what do you call it, when we go to the Mandir. Yes. There's a strong sense of community. [unclear] outside the Mandir not really, which kind of makes sense because it would be kind of odd people would be walking out and about and, you know, um, what do you call it? Engaging in the practice, but, um, yeah, I would say so, um, in the temple really, um, as her, you know, of course now the shopping outlet, but really just at the temple in the area and maybe some of the folks see like, you know, walking out across the street, like you can identify some people who, you know, sort of, you can tell, like they're engaging the holiday, so-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2011.0,2063.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Right, right. I know, I know for Diwali, they put up the lights on the houses, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2063.0,2068.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2068.0,2069.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Okay. Yeah. Cause I remember once it was, it was like, I think it was early November and I saw what I, what I, and again, this is me coming from my own personal, I was like, oh, Christmas lights. And then they were like, no, no, it's it's lot of people put up lights for Diwali. Um, it's a festival of light. Right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2069.0,2087.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yep.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2087.0,2088.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2088.0,2088.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: And the idea is that the, what do you call it? It's supposed to represent the, um, the battle between good and evil and good obviously wins out. So that's where the light part comes in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2088.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Okay. That's a beautiful holiday. All right. So, um, another question that we had and this pertains to culture and neighborhood, um, so do you find that you eat, uh, like, like Indian food at home then, um, you know, or do you eat more American and if you do eat more Indian food at home, do you have trouble, do you think your parents have trouble finding, you know, um, like food that would be more common in India than in America? Or do you just go to the regular supermarket?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2100.0,2132.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Hmm. Okay. So let's see. So this is actually kind of a complex question. So I I'll just start with me for me. Um, I kind of do both. I need more so because of what do you call? I will say I'm a bit more modernized or Americanized to compare it to my parents. So for me, American food is sort of my go-to like, you know, what do you call whether it's Subway or whether it's just buying a salad or something at Au Bon Pain, which is one of the cafe is we had at Queens College, you know, I, I'm not, what do you call? I'm not entirely opposed to Indian food, but then again, I'm not entirely huge fan of it, but it's like, you know, it was part of the culture. So like, you know, if, if I'm hungry for it, it, you know, I'm not entirely opposed, but, um, what do you call it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2132.0,2168.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: As for my mom though. So her diet has kind of transformed over the years. So when you're Hindu, you're born vegetarian and what do you call? And, uh, and I was, I'm a vegetarian too. So, um, my mom kind of took it very seriously. She's a vegetarian and vegan. So, um, so she sort of lets you, when did she become vegan? She went more leaning towards vegan. I want to say in 2008, 2010-ish. And you know, for the past decade or so, she's been leaning towards the vegan side of things. So, um, for her, I mean, Indian food is vegan as it is. So for her Indian food has really become kind of like her rock. I mean, of course, because throughout the years, and I don't think I've ever seen her eat American food, but she has been sort of leaning into eating American for like, we, we do go to the supermarket and we do buy produce, and then we go and all that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2168.0,2216.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: But, um, she also does not eat a single gram of sugar, like for her sugar tastes bitter. I don't know what it is. I think she's one of those people where once you stop having something for so long and you have it again, it tastes very, very weird. So for her, she does not eat anything that has sugar in it. I mean, some Indian sweets she'll give the exception to, for the most part. No. So she's sort of, you know, I would say leaning towards Indian food and my dad on the other hand, he's kind of a blend of both. He likes Indian food or American food. Doesn't make a difference to him. He's not picky and same thing with my sister.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2216.0,2245.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Okay. That's great. Do you guys just go to Key Food or do you go to, um, like the Patel Brothers? Do you go to like, um-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2245.0,2252.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yes. The Patel Brothers for sure. Um, what do you call it that, I think that's also a part of where I grew up, but for me, I really like Key Food personally because you know, it's right downtown and it just feels more homey and it feels more familiar. Um, but we've gone to all the familiar and, and supermarket there's Patel Brothers, there used to be something called [unclear], but it closed down. But now it's called a Miraja, which in Hindi means king, which is when I think about it, I'll see at the front of the store. And I'll be like, there was nothing royal like about the supermarket people. Like, let me tell you one thing about Indian supermarkets is that, um, nobody actually communicates when they need to move past you, you are supposed to use your telepathy senses that all Indian people magically have to in order to move around somebody.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2252.0,2298.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: So instead of saying, excuse me, you just, you know, aggressively stare or, you know, you're supposed to, you know, keep moving and hope that they get out of your way. So that's the one funny bit about Indian supermarkets, but, uh, yeah, that's, that's what, um, that's we do most of our grocery shopping, um, and also over the years, Trader Joe's has become a thing. Oh, and Costco, my, what do you call when it comes to Costco? My mom feels like she's in heaven because if there's one thing about Asian cultures, I think, um, a lot of people will agree that when it comes to saving finances and being fiscally conservative, wholesale markets do a very wonderful job.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2298.0,2337.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Oh, I totally agree with her on that. So, um, when you dress up, do you do, when you have holidays, do you dress up for holidays, um, in different clothes? Or do you just go as, you know, jeans or leggings or just nice pair of pants?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2337.0,2353.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: So what do you call it? So for me, um, what you call like I'll wear the traditional Indian outfit, but I will wear a sweat pants instead of the actual, I think they want to translate from Hinglish, English, Hindi to English coffee, I need coffee. When it translates from Hindi to English, it, the word becomes pajama. I think it's something else in Hindi. I, I'm blanking on the word right now, but I'll sort of do a hybrid of both. And I'll just, I'll just wear sweatpants that sort of blend with the outfit. My mom, what do you call it? What do you call it? She has been wearing Indian outfits, her entire life. So what do you call it for her? That's just natural. So she'll wear, you know, traditional Indian clothing, whether it's a sari or a Salwar though, or something of the sort. Um, and same thing with my sister when she comes home, um, what do you call it? My dad, what do you call it, in the beginning he used to, um, what do you call, he used to be full out full on Indian outfit, but now he's solely converted to my side of things where he's like, all right, I'm just going to wear sweats to it because I'm going to stay in here and sit down and socialize and be comfortable, might as well do it while feeling comfortable. Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2353.0,2411.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Exactly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2411.0,2412.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2412.0,2413.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: So, um, did, was it easy to find, um, like clothing stores that sell these clothes or did your mother make these clothes or, you know-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2413.0,2422.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: So we got some of them from India, what do you call it? So, um, the relatives in India will send us stuff and some, uh, but otherwise it's not too hard to go out and find, um, find Indian clothes, um, around here. What do you call it? That's one of the lucky parts about being in Glen Oaks. I think on Hillside, there are always a bunch of stores where you can literally just go Indian clothes shopping, and you're good to go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2422.0,2443.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Okay. And it's always been like that since, how old are you again? I'm sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2443.0,2447.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: I'm 21. No worries. That's fine. Oh-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2447.0,2449.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Okay. So was it, was it always kind of like this for you? Like was the neighborhood always, as far as you can remember, uh, you know, easy to find, um, Indian clothes, Indian food, um, you know, you have this sense of-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2449.0,2463.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2463.0,2463.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: It was always like, great. That's awesome. I asked because we have some people who, um, they're like in their eighties and seventies and they said the neighborhood wasn't always like this, uh, you know, 30, 40 years ago. So it was, it was much harder, but that's great that it's, it's gotten easier. Um, so-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2463.0,2481.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Pretty much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2481.0,2482.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: Yeah. So, um, let me wrap up because let's see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2482.0,2492.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: So it looks like we have pretty much gotten through all of our questions. I saved this question for last. This has been a great interview. Um, so for future generations of your family, listening to this years from now, um, is there any wisdom you want to pass on to them? Or what would you want them to know? Um, this will be a public archive. So, you know, potentially years from now, your great grandchildren could listen to this. If, if you, what would you want to tell them about, you know, Glen Oaks, Queens, your community, uh, any little wisdom you want to give them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2492.0,2526.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: I think I know just the right thing to say. So my mother would always say your roots are very important. She's like, look at a tree when you cut the roots, the tree topples over it. Well, realistically it doesn't topple over. It just dies out. But, um, I'm sure as a botanist you probably know that what specifically happens, but I think it's very important to have your roots in some place, make sure you're ingrained in some place and it does not. And no place is picture perfect. You know, you're not going to get something like Stars Hollow right off the bat, and you're not going to get something where you feel just completely at home, but over the years and over time, you know, that same time heals all wounds. A place will eventually begin to feel like home for you. And that's what this community really is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2526.0,2564.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: So what I would say is make sure you plant your root somewhere that you feel like, you know, over, over time it'll feel right for you. And of course you won't know that right away. It will take a while but just remember that above all, no place is picture perfect. And you know, when you find somewhere that moderately feels right, eventually it will become perfectly right. And I think that's the instinct that my parents had. They saw a place that looked moderately right to them. And over the years, what do you know? It became perfectly right to them. And they had no clue. You know, I just talked to you about how my mom, you know, this was the first stop that she saw. And she was like, all right, you know, let's, let's buy a house here. And she just took a chance and she was like, all right, I want to stay here. And it just turned into such a wonderful, ongoing memory for us. So I think what I'll emphasize again is, you know, um, plant your roots somewhere where you feel like it, where you feel, um, attached to, and you feel like this is somewhere you could be for a while and a while is going to turn into a very long time. And it will give you a great foundation for the rest of your life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2564.0,2628.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sara Fiorenza: That's a wonderful advice. Thank you so much. I'm going to stop the recording now, but thank you so much. We've reached 43 minutes. That's great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2628.0,2637.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881/transcript/49121/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Siddharth Malviya: Yeah, no problem. If you need photos or anything, or what do you call it for the Queens memory archive. I'm happy to send you some, I have photos of literally coffee with my mom going back. I want to say six years, five years. Like, so that's when I started. That's when I started getting my phone and I was like, all right. Yeah, I can use my phone, but, um, what do you call? I'm happy to send you anything extra if you need it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/50965/file/123881#t=2637.0,2658.08"}]}]}]}