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Fun Facts About
Me
I was born in Toronto, Canada during one of the largest blizzards of the
year.
As a Ph.D. student in social psychology at Stanford University, I became
passionate about studying the implications of giving people choice. It was
here, at the top of the oval at Stanford's Marguerite bus stop, that I met
my husband, Garud.
Garud and I got married in a traditional
Indian-style wedding in Bangalore, India, promptly after graduation.
In July 1998, I joined the Management Division in Columbia Business School
and moved back to New York. Having moved here with my family at the age of
three, I’ve always considered myself a New Yorker. A few of my favorite
places in New York include…
Central Park in the summer, my chocolate
haven, La Maison du Chocolat, and The Amercian Museum of Natural History.
  
And of course, the very best thing about New York is the abundance of good
pizza places.
My top favorites include, Nick’s, John’s,
Patsy’s, and Lombardi’s.
   
When I’m not eating chocolate or pizza, I spend my spare time biking,
cooking, and taking walks. But most of all, I love to travel. So far, I
have only explored twenty-eight countries--I have many more to go.
In fact, in 1989, I was among the crowd at “Check-Point Charlie”  chiseling
away at the soon-to-be-no-more Berlin Wall. Now that capitalism has taken
root, what was once a wall is now a mall. I still have my pieces of the
Berlin Wall, which I imagine are worth a fortune if auctioned on E-bay, but
for me, they are priceless.
The newest addition to my life has been the birth of my son, Ishaan
Iyengar. Watch Ishaan grow up by checking out pictures
on our online photo album and viewing video clips of
his adventures around the house.
 
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