If you look at the marital status or how many Indian households are like two-person households and it's like almost 90 percent.

Most Indian kids come from a household with two parents.

But I wonder if we came from a community where people talked about mental health, talked about toxic masculinity and refused abuse as just a part of life.

And that's just how it is and you know marriage is either going to is going to be whatever it is.

I wonder if that number would be greatly reduced if there would be more divorces in the Indian community because of that or even maybe less marriages in the first place at a young age.

It's just all of it is so messy and it's so intertwined that when you see something horrible happen to someone else or to yourself, you just don't even know which part of the system to blame.

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Pasna, welcome to the unmistakable creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Thank you for having me.

It is my pleasure to have you here. So I found out about your story because you wrote in and when I read it, it was one of those sort of hell yes.

I want to find out more about this person moments. So in that note, I want to start by seeing where in the world where you born and raised and what impacted that end up having on the choices that you've made throughout your life and your career thus far.

That's a good question. I was born in Downers Grove, Illinois.

My mother had immigrated to Naperville, which is just a couple of minutes away when she was arranged to be married to my dad who was living in Naperville at the time.

And shortly after I was born, my parents got a divorce. So I moved around a lot following that.

So following Naperville, I lived in New York for a little bit. I lived in New Jersey. I lived in India.

So that was really hard to being an American kid and then moving to your homeland.

And you look like everyone, but you don't talk like everyone and everyone's wondering why.

And then after that, I moved to Memphis, Tennessee.

So I would say the impact that that had on me had mostly to do with like my mom's marital status.

So when I was like I said shortly after I was born, my parents got a divorce, but then a couple years after when I was about five, my mother got remarried.

And this was her second marriage. And she was married to just a very abusive person.

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