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See larger Sitar restaurant owner Ramesh Kumar: 'For three years when I started this restaurant, I worked a seven-day week, 100 hours a week, morning to nght, before sunrise after sunset.'

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Sitar restaurant owner Ramesh Kumar: "For three years when I started this restaurant, I worked a seven-day week, 100 hours a week, morning to nght, before sunrise after sunset."

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  • Dr. Narendra Dahotre is trying to raise funds for his alma mater back in India. 'Your economic success belongs to the society,' he says.
  • Does Dr. Dahotre push his own American-born kids educationally? 'I try not to,' he says. 'We are in a different environment.'
  • Renu Contractor threads the eyebrows of Harsha Ved, a close friend as well as client.
  • His wife, 'Achoo' Kumar is not as talkative as him, but she's been known to call out the window to a passer-by in the grad student apartments, 'Hey, let's have tea!' says Harishwaran Hariaharn.
  • Sitar restaurant owner Ramesh Kumar: 'For three years when I started this restaurant, I worked a seven-day week, 100 hours a week, morning to nght, before sunrise after sunset.'
  • Swapnil Kumar of Mumbai is a server at Sitar restaurant. 'I know how to make people happy,' says Swapnil. 'I want to cheer them up if they're depressed.'

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