About us

Sayali (sy + lee) Bhat: Born and brought up in Pune, Sayali, 24, has completed her M.Com. (Master of Commerce) degree with honors, and she is soon going to become a chartered accountant. She is quite adventurous, and loves traveling, hiking (she has conducted hiking tours) and rafting. She also likes to play cards, make friends and watch south Indian movies (the best entertainment ever). Despite being a Brahmin, she loves to eat fish and craves to eat anything that moves (doors of heaven are closed to her). She has more family members than the population of Somerville, and more friends than the population of Somerville and Bridgewater combined. Her charms are hard to resist, especially for eligible bachelors in New Jersey; but she sometimes makes wrong decisions, especially regarding eligible bachelors in New Jersey.

Amar Drawid: Tired of standing in the top ten in statewise exams in the fourth, seventh, eighth and twelvth grade in India, Amar, now 28, decided to try his luck in the US. He devoted the four years at Yale to ping pong, foosball and that ultimate sport, the ultimate frisbee, while throwing his friends' hats across classrooms, reciting poems in front of professors, getting cakes thrown into his face and receiving death threats (for scoring forty points above the mean in an organic chemistry test depsite being half an hour late because he fell asleep in the hot shower), and finally obtained a BS and an MS with Magna Cum Laude in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemsitry. He has been glued to Sanofi-Aventis for the last six years like a blockbuster drug sticking to its receptor, and is pursuing his PhD in Computational Biology at Rutgers when not busy talking on the phone with Sayali.

Swapna Drawid: After living in Mumbai, Maharashtra and Minneapolis, Minnesota, Swapna, 25, now eyes her future in Maryland. She is an MBA from a top Indian university, and plans to become an actuary and a chartered financial analyst. She can play the keyboard, the guitar and the flute, and can speak fluent German, but prefers to sit back and watch The Simpsons instead. She also has to deal with an obnoxious elder brother.

Aniket Desai: Before, Aniket's claim to fame was that he was Amar's high school friend; now it is that he is Swapna's fiance'. Aniket, 28, completed his electrical engineering from the best engineering school in Mumbai, and then got his MS from University of Maryland, College Park. He works (we hope) in a company near Washington, D.C., and lives in Silver Spring, MD. He was quite an unpopular student in school, thanks to his utter disragard for teachers. But he was a good student. While Amar was too busy going late to classes, sleeping during classes and being popular with the teachers the rest of the time, Aniket took all the notes and then copied them into Amar's notebook. But Amar was a good friend to him. When the teachers told him, as they often did, "Why do you hang out with that useless boy Aniket? He is not good company for you," Amar assured them that he took personal responsibility to straighten out the wayward kid.