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Oral history interview with Prashant Kakad [Sound Recording 01]
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- 2017-07-20 (Creation)
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MPEG-4; 00:42:51
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Prashant Ashok Kakad was born in Nasik, India, in 1982. His father was an officer in India's Air Force, but switched careers in the mid-1990s to become a police officer in Bombay. Prashant Kakad graduated from high school in Bombay in 1999, and then attended the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai. He came to the United States in 2003 to attend Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He earned a master of science degree in polymer science in 2006, and then worked for Intel in Hillsboro, Oregon. He left Intel in 2009 to pursue a career in music. In 2010, he founded Jai Ho! Dance Party and Bollywood Dreams Entertainment. In 2020, he and Snehal Bodke were married.
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Session 1, Part 1. This oral history interview with Prashant Kakad was conducted by Sankar Raman on July 20, 2017. The interview was recorded for The Immigrant Story, an organization that documents and archives the stories of immigrants and refugees in the United States. In this part of the interview, Kakad discusses his early life in India, including his father’s career in the Air Force and later as a police officer in Bombay. He describes life in Bombay as a teenager, the pressure to succeed at education in the sciences, and his passion for music and dance. He talks about competing in singing competitions in high school, attending Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai, and organizing cultural events at his college. He describes applying to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
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Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and The Immigrant Story. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Educational Use Permitted, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/.
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- Raman, Sankar (Contributor)