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Comedian Rajiv Satyal Delights Packed House at HAF’s Dallas Benefit Dinner
Dallas, TX (February 5, 2016) — Comedian Rajiv Satyal captivated a packed house at the Hindu American Foundation’s Dallas Benefit Dinner last Saturday, January 30. Hosted at the charming Hackberry Country Club in Irving, the sold-out benefit dinner was attended by the Dallas community, members of Hindu American Foundation (HAF), and interfaith leaders.
Satyal, who delivered the evening’s keynote address, coupled his Hindu and Indian identities with his hilarious and heartwarming story as a successful comedian. Based in Los Angeles, his TV-clean act has made him one of the most versatile comedians working today. Satyal has garnered over 50 million online views and been featured on NBC, NPR, Nickelodeon, Netflix, Pandora, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, India Abroad, and the LA Times. He co-created the seven-city Make Chai Not War tour to India, a Hindu/Muslim stand-up show s
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Standup comedian Rajiv Satyal wants you to know that he’s Indian. In this intense two-minute shout-out released last week for India’s Independence Day and influenced by the Molson ‘I Am Canadian’ beer ad he shares exactly what being Indian means (and does not mean) to him:
I’m Indian. Just Indian. I’m not South Asian any more than Russians are North Asian.
I’m not ASIAN Indian or EAST Indian. There are 1.3 billion of us – we don’t need a cardinal direction, OK? It’s not our fault that Christopher Columbus got lost.
Sure, we love our states, but there’s strength in numbers – 1 out of every 6 human beings is Indian, so stop dividing us. The British already did that – once.
And we need to quit saying that we’re not Indian because I wasn’t born here or sound like this or eat that. Our HEARTS are Indian.
We are feelers. We gave the world the romance of Bollywood films and the music of Ravi Shankar and Zubin Mehta and
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An Indian-American Journey
January 2020
With about four million of us Indians in America, no stereotype, let alone a single narrative can capture the essence of our dynamic and diverse community. Yet, comedian Rajiv Satyal’s intimate and inspiring portrayal of his family’s American journey provides a fairly representative snapshot of our journey, identity, and place in the U.S.
I’m sitting with my parents and two brothers in the family room (appropriately) of our home in Fairfield, Ohio. It’s the eve of the finale performance of the one-person show about my prolonged single life, No Man’s Land, which I had debuted in Los Angeles five months earlier. inom was scheduled to play the Aronoff Center in downtown Cincinnati, when inom remarked, “Twenty years ago, if you’d predicted that one of the Satyal Brothers was about to perform at the Aronoff, one was about to be m