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(interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2015-02-27 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["eng (primary)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["Dilip Dutta arrived in the United States in May, 1970, having previously worked at Braithwaite while in India. After living in Philadelphia for seven years, the Duttas moved to Houston in 1977, when Dilip was hired at Pullman-Kellogg, which was eventually bought by Halliburton. Dilip discusses his time with the company, including his time working in Indonesia. Dilip and Sukti Dutta discuss their family and their involvement with the Houston Durgabari Society."]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["digital recording, sound"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Pullman Kellogg (corporate name)","Brown \u0026amp; Root Development, Inc. (corporate name)","Halliburton Company (corporate name)","East Indian Americans--Societies and clubs (topical term)","Houston (Tex.) 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Dilip and Sukti Dutta discuss their family and their involvement with the Houston Durgabari Society."]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://rightsstatements.org/page/CNE/1.0/?language=en\"\u003eCopyright Not Evaluated \u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce must be obtained from the Foundation for India Studies, Houston, Texas.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Houston Public Library"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Houston Public Library"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/252/original/HPL_ArchiveBannerCDM2.jpg?1738348845","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/210/355/small/open-uri20231027-1243258-9ygsly_1698433047.jpg?1698418647","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - FIS-OH0032.mp4"]},"duration":2766.57067,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/210/355/small/open-uri20231027-1243258-9ygsly_1698433047.jpg?1698418647","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-houstonlibrary.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/210/355/original/FIS-OH0032.mp4?1698418643","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":2766.57067,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Transcript [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":")\nNowadays I don't see any -- actually in the engineering field I can say, there are not that many discriminations right now at this time. Okay, first I know why, because when I came here, people used to think, our education standard is not as good as US education standard. That the myth people had, lot of people had. That restrained them to give us some opportunities to move out there, I believe, that’s, what it is. People need to know who I am and what my background is and it takes time. So as a group it takes longer. So that's what happened. Now I see some young, engineers are holding good positions nowadays. But our time we are always said we need some pencil pusher. We don't want any supervisor; or we don’t want this. This kind of word I used to hear.\n\nNB: Was there any language barrier; it may not be in your case, but did you see among your friends?\n\nDD: Yes, there was, there was, there was language barrier plus accent, some accent,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=1203.0,1277.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but gradually it’s overcome.\n\nNB: How about your family? How does your family take it, Mrs. Dutta and eventually --\n\nDD: I think she took it well and she liked it, somewhat liked it I think.\n\nSD: One think I wanted, when we came here we have two or three family we knew, he forgot that.\n\nNB: And they were helpful, I mean you could go visit them?\n\nSD: Yeah. We used to go to them and enjoy. Ashok Gosh and Nivadita, Deepak Dutta, Ranjit Chandra and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=1277.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"NB: That’s good. I mean some known people. \n\nDD: Yeah, we had. Then we got lot of friends because we are very socially active, that's it. Whether it’s good or bad, we are very much socially active. So therefore, we got lot of friends. Every weekend we got busy.\n\nNB: Tell us about your children, you have two good sons, where were they born, I mean one was --\n\nDD: One is in Philadelphia, my eldest one’s name is Aurko Dutta. Aurko was born name in Philadelphia, Marko, his nickname, actual name is Amarto. Amarto born here in Houston. My eldest, the Aurko is now; he is the Vice President of","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=1320.0,1382.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Company. His office is somewhere in Downtown. And my second, he is an MBA, but he works for Dover, Dover Industries I think.\n\nNB: Yeah, it’s a big industry.\n\nDD: Yeah, he is in the Woodland office. He is in the accounting field. So my eldest son has one son and one daughter named Arup and –\n\nSD: Jenna.\n\nDD: Jenna.\n\nNB: That’s good. So did you experience any issues while raising them, raising your --?\n\nDD: Raising my sons?\n\nNB: Two sons.\n\nDD: I wouldn’t say no, not really, but, we, I personally feel what happened in the meantime I would say one thing, you asked me and sometimes I have to go back if I remember later. One time I had a situation -- these engineering companies have ups and downs, you have job, no job, you get out. No job, next day as I go, here’s your one week’s pay, you go. \n\nSo that situation happened one time, and at that time Pullman Kellogg was brought by Halliburton","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=1382.0,1474.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So they laid off 500 people at one time, one day. Everything is a mess. And I got lucky, I didn’t get laid. But at the same time the next day I was called and told me, go to Indonesia. I said, Indonesia? I have a little, two little kids, how can I go? \n\n(","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=1474.0,1504.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":")\n\nHe said, if you don't go you don't have a job. \n\nSo you see, whether you say discrimination or you say they had to do it because they have no choice, so I went to Indonesia and she got sick and that made me come back early. So I thought, sometimes you see if you go, go to expat, there is an expat community, it","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=1504.0,1534.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then there is everybody’s friend, whether he is from England, like in our case, I had people from London office, people from Houston office, people from Mexican office, something like that, so we all together worked, we dined together, we had the same hotel.\n\nSo anyway, so the Project Director at that time, I told my wife is sick, what can I do? He said go. So that’s how I escaped continuing in Indonesia after a year of course, so I had to – I could come back.\n\nNB: Did you take your children to Indonesia?\n\nDD: No. There is another thing, I had another very good assignment in Caracas, Venezuela that’s where my children could go, okay, because that’s an open offer, you have an expat, you can go to the international school, study there, and a lot of people did that, but my sons did not want to go any other place than that North we used to live and there is a Klein District, I said they will not leave Klein High School, that’s the best school in the whole world for them. And we were so loving in a sense you may say to our children that we did not force. See here, we did not force our sons to be anything, whatever they want to be, they are.\n\nNB: So, how did you make sure that they could stay in the religious, Indian religious communities, and not biased by the American culture, did you oppose to kind of","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=1534.0,1622.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Americanization.\n\nSD: No. \n\nDD: We made sure that our children are very free to choose whatever they want to choose. This is the way we brought them up, and they are very – but, they didn’t disappoint us, they stayed in the community, my eldest son was the Chairman of the Council of Trustees for Durgabari, okay? So he worked four years for them, for the institution. My son was in the ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ Show, my eldest son Aurko, he went there in what 2000 or 2002 or – I forgot, 2002.\n\nSD: 2002.\n\nDD: 2002, he was in there and he faced Regis. Regis appreciated his voice, he said, you have a golden voice, if you happens to see that, that thing you will see that how Regis was so excited with his voice. You know, my son has a very good voice. He has a brilliant voice and he can act, he can sing – \n\nSD: Sing, recite --\n\nDD: He acted that – you may remember, “The Poet and Prophet.” The Poet and Prophet by – it’s a wonderful rendering by -- what’s that name of that institution?\n\nSD: Oh, the theater –\n\nDD: No. Anyway.\n\nSD:\tShunya.\n\nDD: Shunya. Shunya staged that, have you heard of Shunya? I don’t know.\n\nNB: Yeah, I went there today.\n\nDD: You went there, okay. Oh, that’s an awful","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=1622.0,1756.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I would say, that’s great!\n\nNB: So I hear that I mean your elder son also married within the Indian community.\n\nDD: Yes, he married – she is – our daughter-in-law is from Punjab, actually she is from London, I would say, but she was born in London and she is Punjabi origin. Then she is a very, very good girl and we liked her and she has brought a house across our house, close to us and she is chartered accountant.\n\n(","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=1756.0,1805.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":")\n\nNB: So they have two children now?\n\nDD: Yeah. They have two children, one son, one daughter.\n\nNB: Okay, you never had to worry about interracial marriage, because you didn’t think that –\n\nDD: Not really. It’s their choice, if they choose and if anything goes wrong they suffer, why should I get on their way and be unhappy for nothing. You know, it’s their life, their life, they should live their way.\n\nNB: But sometimes parents do advise them channelizing their life, something some way you may -- \n\nDD: Yeah. It sounds me","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=1805.0,1857.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":", but we don’t, we don’t, we are very open.\n\nNB: So, you mentioned about your son’s involvement in Durgabari Society, but you yourself were very much involved also.\n\nDD: Yeah, up to the inauguration of that institution I was there. Six years I was continuously working \n\nNB: Tell us a bit about –\n\nDD: Till 2000 September it was inaugurated, after that I said, now, others should do it, I am not – I have a very -- we may say good or bad, I don’t know, I don’t want to cling to anything, I don’t want to influence, I do my job and after that it’s somebody else. Let them do whatever way they want to run that institution, it’s there. But up to 2000 September, I was strict and I worked very hard to get that started. At that time, nobody could make me bend anyway.\n\nSo in public work, there will a lot of resistance, different opinions, all kinds of things, I know we have to – I have to steer through all this.\n\nNB: Tell us a little bit about the objectives of the HDBS, I mean how –\n\nDD: You see, we call it -- and one thing I would say, we call it Durgabari, which is a residence of Maa Durga. We said residence of Maa Durga, that is why our temples which we call temple is not actually a real Hindu temple structure which we see in India, which has a Garbhagriha and then the deity is in that small and the priest worships. And our concept is, everybody participates in it, okay?\n\nSo when the priest chants, we like everybody to hear it, so our concept of that is a body concept, is a home concept. So therefore you will not see small little rooms, it’s all open, and all the deities are on the one side and people can gather all over surrounding the deity and listening to the priest’s mantras, rather than purohit does the puja all by himself, which is the tradition in India. But here everybody listens, everybody circles around, that’s our concept. Plus we have to have the cultural thing going, so we have a auditorium, we have a school, we have a building, so they can practice literature in the library, and still something more to be done which is not being done yet, and I don’t like to interfere, I don’t say anything which is a good children park which is yet to be built.\n\nAnd we thought of it, a good field, soccer field or something like that which is not done yet properly so that nobody plays there, or indoor games or swimming pool, or table tennis, tennis court etcetera is not being built there. You know, still we have 3 acre land remaining, but the main problem is also parking. We cannot have it -- there is totally 6 acre land, so 3 acre we already built and what you call with the parking lot itself.\n\nNB: Tell us briefly about HDBS, its contribution and how it participates in the Greater Houston Communities, like you know, the food banks?\n\n(","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=1857.0,2107.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":")\n\nDD: This is a, yeah, they do, they do feed for food bank collection of foods etcetera. They do -- why I am saying they do, because it's somebody – I am not anyway a policymaker or anything. But as I said, whenever I leave, I leave and let other people do it. I don’t want to believe in, that I want to cling to it and I have to advice them. I feel like others have the same merit and same intelligence as I do, maybe more than I do.\n\nSo, that's a part of it, and here again, I would say we need to do more.\n\nNB: More.\n\nSD: We had a scholarship in Houston.\n\nDD: Yeah, there was a scholarship in Houston, that's Tagore Society does for Houston, University of Houston.\n\nNB: Right!\n\nDD: Tagore Society is affiliated with some program and there is an essay competition every year. They award that, and also they -- I think still it's continuing. They send one person from here to Shantiniketan, to Tagore's University with a scholarship for a month or two months, so that they can go there and study in that environment.\n\nNB: So do you see any concerns regarding anything in Houston, about societies or, I mean, do you think that it is going in the right direction, and is all the same that you are saying?\n\nDD: Let me say it this way. You would see now, our generation, those who are 70s immigrants, or even early 80s immigrants, they are becoming older. That older generation, now by virtue of the Internet, what you call revolution or explosion or whatever you call it, by virtue of that, we have many, many Indian immigrants now in the IT Department. So they are younger. They are practically our son's age, age group. So they are here and all the -- I don't know, I am not aware of other communities what they are doing, or how those guys are getting involved in the community affairs, I don't know that, but in our community you would see those IT group of young men are now getting involved in. So they are now taking charge of that institution. This year they have elected all the young generation immigrants who came for IT.\n\nNB: You meant for the HDBS?\n\nDD: HDBS.\n\nNB: Executive Committee and --\n\nDD: Executive Committee and everything, has new immigrants. So one thing is, I am not very sure about the other communities, and nowadays I did not converse with -- I have lot of friends in Gujarati Samaj, but I had no conversation with them for the past few years, after I retired, but for our community this is what I am saying is that, the second generation, let me divide this. Second generations of the immigrants, meaning those who, those of us who came here and our children, that’s second generation, and the guys who are coming from IT, they are also second generation, because they are my son's, our son's age in a sense.\n\nNB: Yeah.\n\nDD: Maybe two/three years plus minus. So they are also second generation. They get involved in our societal affairs, but our children –\n\nNB: They are different.\n\n(","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=2107.0,2401.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":")\n\nDD: They are different, so they are not getting involved. When my son became the Chairman of the Council of Trustee, I thought he may be able to bring in the second generation to participate, but it didn’t happen, somehow it didn’t happen. I don’t know whether the same thing in other Indian community or not.\n\nNB: That’s a good question; in fact, did you ever ask the children if they really need any such organization to stay in the Indian cultural group?\n\nDD: I don’t know, that’s something maybe we need to work on it, as all Indian community, not just sectional, like Bengali or Gujarati or Marathi and all this, we still aren’t able to make an Indian community yet, that’s what is my feeling and I feel bad for it because I am a failure for in that respect also, because I used to get involved in community affairs, that’s why I feel bad about it. I didn’t do it, I couldn’t do it.\n\nNB: Yeah, I would like to close this out after two more questions. I mean, unless you have some additional thoughts, so you have been in America for a long, long time, almost 40 years.\n\nDD: 45 years.\n\nNB: So is there any regret, I mean, you could have stayed back in India and served Indian community there. You did a pretty good job and your company have been top of the ladder","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=2401.0,2523.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":", but do you","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=2523.0,2530.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"any regret that have you lived in India, you could have done more to the Indian society?.\n\nDD: No, practically no, because if I had, I wouldn’t have gone back. See, I am among my brothers or sisters or anybody, nobody is here, except me. All my brothers are very well to do in India. Two are chartered accountants, one is a scientist, one is in IBM, so I could have gone back to them, but I didn’t. So I am quite happy here.\n\nNB: So my second question is, and this is the last question, unless you","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=2530.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":", how do you envision the future of these next generation Indians? Do you see a good future for them in the USA or do you think that they have to – \n\nDD: The second generation, second generation, our second generation, I see a good future because they are already – most of the Indian children, they are doing very, very good as much as I know, okay? They are either doctors, scientists, lawyers, because we emphasized on education. Those who have come here, we emphasized a lot on education. This one thing I would say, somebody may laugh at me, education is the easiest way to earn a good living, okay. The word easiest somebody may not like, but it is the easiest way to have a good life.\n\nAny other field is very tough, very, very tough; you can be successful, like say you go to football player, how many get into a club? Basketball player, how many? Hundreds maybe, thousands strive, but how many? Very few. Business, how many can do it, how many are successful businessmen?\n\nNB: Do you think that your children are they still in the same principles to their children?\n\nDD: I don’t know, that I don’t know, that I don’t know, what’s their principle, but this is what my observation is, I don’t know, you may differ my opinion, but see, the business and other things is some kind of different talent you need to be successful.\n\n(","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=2580.0,2707.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355/transcript/60429/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":")\n\nNB: Okay. With that, we’d like to conclude the interview unless you have some additional thoughts.\n\nDD: I have one thought, I am thanking the Foundations for Indian Studies for giving me the opportunity to speak out, and speak my mind and my background, etcetera and in my opinion this is a great venture and I wish this will be very successful for the future generation or anybody who wants to know something about us, the Indians, they have a good place to go. And thank you for inviting me and thank you for your --\n\nNB: Thank you! It was my pleasure to get the opportunity to interview you. Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2436/collection_resources/108910/file/210355#t=2707.0,2766.57067"}]}]}]}