The Ultimate Riches to Rags Story feat. Comedian

Lucie is joined by #indian #comedian and #tiktok star ‪@ZarnaGarg‬

[@KANISHKPRANITA]

This lady is a phenomenon. Check her out, a roller coaster of sorts. Each of her interviews makes me want to hear her even more. Absolute joy to listen to ZARNA, ever since I have found her in 2023.

[@sharni888]

Her strength is her EDUCATION n CONFIDENCE. she is too 'big' for others to handle. She cares a shi_ about what others think about her n what she does. Good for her.

[@archileanbrown7549]

I love,love her

[@harryvaswani1246]

Do not lie about coming to US at 16 . You won't have this heavy accent.

[@marcybigfan2016]

Honey, you're an inspiration to so many Indians here in the US. Congratulations! 🎉Love you! 💖

[@nirmalajetty6426]

Girl! Ty for speaking about Indian MIL!!!! Can u also add Indian “sis in law” too please?😅

[@Amazing-y3v]

Zaina, I’m super proud of you! You are the voice for desi woman, and women in general. Thank you to your family for supporting you. 👍👍

[@JoyMenzies-r2r]

Zarna, your openness is admirable! As an immigrant, I can relate to going from riches to rags. And truly, I don’t like ketchup! Kudos for being honest about that.

[@Kunchokhen743]

She is the voice , it’s so clear her in laws and her husband re behind her. We need more of zarna who inspire millions of youth to be free and stand on own right to live and do what you like

[@nsn5564]

As a middle aged Indian American immigrant woman, I relate so much, yet am absolutely shocked by her formative story in India. Most women and female relatives I knew got married after 25. At 15 we weren't at all adults or prepared to leave the house. My dad would never have told me what to do or forced me to marry someone. And that was 40 years ago. We have very different situations in India.

[@user-dh5bt5vu6l]

Indian women have varied life experiences of patriarchy. I am from Kerala,but grew up in Jharkhand.l had friends from all over the country. I knew a lot of girls from rich families,who were heavily pampered and protected SO LONG as they did not exhibit a mind of their own.They lacked NOTHING except the freedom to think for themselves and exercise their own choices. Zarba is telling the truth. But the good thing is that lndian women have come into their own now.

[@NrityaSankalpa]

Yup! Loneliness, individualism and wastefulness were the first things that hit me as an immigrant

[@MaraKara-kl4dk]

Thank you for having Zarna on your show!!! I’ve had a most enjoyable time watching. Im a big fan of hers and her family. Will definitely be looking forward to seeing her live when she’s in my area. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏.

[@rerebaz]

Fantastic interview! “Martin Luther King had a dream, I had bills to pay!” Either way, you’re inspirational to all of us!

[@ABab-jf2jb]

"Do you love this country?" She answered 100%. She spoke for me (also an immigrant). I am so grateful for this country, the people, and all the opportunities.

[@nimisha35]

Zarna left India more than 50 years ago. This country became independent only 75 years ago. The issue is that India has come a long way since then and Indians have collectively worked very hard to make the sea change .. I have never experienced any of the stereotypes she mentions nor have I heard anyone I know here in India having similar experience. Problem is when she passes her own experience of 53 years ago (in what sounds like a very different household - not typical at all even during those times) as what happens in India today… sorry to say her experience sounds bizzare to most Indians and hence they protest.

[@lailarafiq123]

you are right she is selling stale Khakras. Anything for $$$$. *she is a gujju* *from a affluent business family* in Bombay

[@shreedevinair-pal9594]

She is 47 years old. So how could she have gone to the US 50 years ago?

[@aishwaryasudan1290]

Actually this was very common among baniyas and gujjus in general in that generation. Especially if they were extremely rich. I know at least a few of my friends who's moms have had this life. They speak fluent English , have never stepped in a local bus or even in a train, but had their first kid by 18. Everyone's struggle is different. We always assume that with money comes freedom but that's not true. This is why I tell women to have their own incomes, not even your father is going to give you money freely. It is always at a cost and that cost is often freedom.

[@lailarafiq123]

@@aishwaryasudan1290 you are right there - They are locked in with lots of money. Marriage at 18 was a sure thing. But I think in the last 20 years the marwari girls are doing their CFA and setting up practise, many are doing medicene and the last I saw in IIT BOM 10 years ago, the marwari girls are filling up the seats. Most marwari girls in Calcutta set up shop after 2 kids are born. ….2nd and 3trd Tier cities are picking up. The affluent gujju family girls have too much money, everything they do is in their own pockets. They have the intelligence and the grit and being entrpreneural they are creating employment - and this happening big time in Tier 1 cities, which includes Bangalore ! They are quiet and not a show off at all. Infact they play it down

[@charmaine8512]

I grew up in India in the fifties and it was a rich experience _ and believe me living in a country with hardly a population, I find people are not progressive but dated

[@Gogigons]

The best ZG interview I’ve listened to! ❤

[@RajniNAgarwal]

Zarna I love yr voice and what amazing stories u tell. I totally vibe with yr food story. U r spreading so much love and good will and humour. God bless. Hugs.

[@jennifershakira409]

OMG 😳 I can totally relate to her. I'm roughly the same age as her, but I'm an engineer, born in India, lived & worked in Newzealand for 22 years, raised my kids there and now living in Australia.😅

[@vindumaharaj104]

Zarna, you are amazing🎉 Great interview. Love from Australia

[@irenesimon7484]

Oh my I’m so happy I came across ZG! She’s so funny & smart. But then again successful comedians are actually intelligent people. She’s someone I’d love to hang out with. I wish.

[@scully392z]

I love this woman. She is authentic and real. I love when she speaks her truth. She’s amazing!

[@ushamurthy575]

Marriage @15 years of age was during my mother’s time in India! And I am 59years old!!!!!! It is hard to believe Garg’s story when she is hardly 40+! I understand you spice up your stories a bit to sell them but this is too much.

[@NrityaSankalpa]

Agreed! Esp if she grew up in an affluent family like she said. Perhaps in the 60s and 70s it was more common to get engaged at 16 + but definitely not in the 90s

[@kajalkumar7334]

May be because her father didn't wanted to take her responsibility as she mentioned her Mother passed away.

[@AaliyaKhan]

I personally know of a well to do family where the lady was a grandmother at 45. This is only 12 years ago

[@ushamurthy575]

@@AaliyaKhan I do understand the this early marriage practice is still prevalent not just in India but the whole world. But, I couldn’t understand it in Garg’s case who according to her own accounts, is from a will educated, well do do urban family.

[@AaliyaKhan]

She didn't say she got married at 15. She said she left home 16. Got married after ba llb

[@ajrwilde14]

that show title 'One in a Billion' was genius!!

[@datelineyesterday5395]

Always a treat! Thank you for your entertaining podcasts.

[@sadasatyamvada]

I find it hard to believe 1990s fathers were so regressive in India. I do not remember it like that at all

[@wildchook745]

She's a joy to watch....a breath of fresh air.

[@ladykelshan99]

I met my hubby online too! I met him on a military site..which isn't a dating site! I was blessed and verrrry lucky that my hubby wasn't a crazy person! I think you are blessed and lucky as well Zarna!! WOW!!

[@rb5043]

She is hilarious all in all. Mother, comedian just a package. Love her

[@pamberg447]

I love you Zarna! You have such a beautiful family. Thank you for bringing light to my world. ❤ Please come to Minnesota!🫶

[@monalaurence7552]

I love you girl!! Keep doing what you do!!!!

[@chandrabappanad6963]

Simply fabulous Zarna !! You need to be in Vegas

[@CookieBlue1646]

Love this chick n her mom in law 😂

[@amitbiswas3437]

Omg. I love her. She’s like a breath of fresh air..❤😊

[@assejanag2970]

I love the quote she shared: "The man on top of the mountain did not fall there." My friends always told me how lucky and easy my life was when I had a business after I resigned from my corporate job. I hope people realize it's not at all easy to build a business, especially from scratch. I always say that it's not something to be envious of if you don't want the hassle and the hard work. Rather, I hope, they get inspired to do their own grind and work hard to be on top in their own league.

[@ananyamajumder4235]

I dont know what kind of background she had back then but in India the legal age of marriage is 18years for women. And it was same 30years ago. Only in some rural areas orthodox or under educated communities may perform early marriage without getting the authorities involved but under age marriages are absolutely illegal and wont consider valid.

[@VG-filmbuff]

There is definitely a big section of India marrying off their daughters at 15-16 . You are very unaware if you disagree with her. Watch Indian news daily then you will know how ridiculously incorrect you are.

[@imianco8079]

this was refreshing & delightful convo. thank you both!! i am also enjoying zarna's family conversations!

[@shashikalanarayan585]

Great to watch this interview 😅. Fortunately, south of India has no such prejudices about women. Lucky us from south.

[@melmjetset1876]

awesome interview Lucie! I like your style. Great questions & I like how you moved the conversation. Inquisitive & entertaining

[@delcullen3204]

She is so darn funny. I just like her sense of humor. She should have her own show in Vegas. I swear she will have sold out tickets

[@RAIRADIO]

Its absolutely not normal to marry off at 16 in India. Unless you are some remote rural almost tribal village. Marriage age was 18 in India even 30 years ago and what her family did was illegal. Why does she pick the most regressive factors and pass them off as normal. The other day she said comedians get arrested for criticising govt which has NEVER EVER happened. Immigrant comedians contantly do this.

[@kaypee4704]

Comedians in the USA is silenced and gagged if criticizing the Government....many have been when libs are in office......‼⁉️🇺🇸

[@sanoberbalbale6564]

This interview was fantastic!! Thoroughly enjoyed it. #zarnagarg when are you coming to Chicago??

[@ushakaul7381]

I can’t believe she was no allowed to read a newspaper!

[@Dhruv_Dogra]

She is lying... what Indian parents allow a child to read Archie's comics but not the newspaper. What a cat. .. fabricating an entire personal history to appeal to the Gora Sahibs and build a career.

[@tomdnyc1]

Lucie is the best person on the planet! Everything she does is great, including Immigrant Jam! OK, now back to meditating on top of a mountain until next Wednesday's episode.

[@marcybigfan2016]

Zarna is the hot new stand up! Go, Zarna! You rock!🎉🎉😅

[@jeanniesabol5410]

She is funny, smart, talented, and beautiful. I wish her only good things, because that's what she deserves. Go Zarna!!!

[@andrewmoyap]

I grew up Roman Catholic....another group of men who exclude women and believe that women should keep quiet and produce lots of R C Catholics. In my country, the R C Church is on the decline....and that is what will eventually happen in all these male centred groups who exclude women. The best thing around is the Declaration of Human Rights. The first statement of Human Rights is that all human beings are equal....Even countries which have signed the Declaration of Human Rights still have improvements to make in their education, their laws, their governments. I am no longer a Roman Catholic because the Vatican refuses to sign the Declaration of Human Rights. They are that far behind....that exclusive boys club with its headquarters in Rome!!

[@rrasgar]

😂😂😂😂Martin Luther King had a dream, I had bills to pay! 😂😂😂😂

[@katysummer9418]

Great story and talent! She empowers other women.

[@Miminini79]

Sarna is amazing! I love Indians! They hard workers, kind and I’m love with their accent!😍😍😍 90% of my son classmates are from Indian descents and that made me fell the need to understand different cultures better and be happy with differences! I’m an immigrant from South America, before moving to the USA I have not meet anyone from India! Nowadays my kids school has 50% of the community from Indian descends and they get all first places😂😂😂😂 including best high school in state! I’m so thankful for them bringing my family to be better, have more fun and more love! And having Zarna making me laugh is the cherry on the top!

[@vasanthanaidoo6103]

You are amazing.I enjoy watching your shows.❤

[@kavibh21]

LOve you Zarna, so simple and confident.....

[@vinnettepope8255]

She's is so funny 😅😂😅

[@echeleteich3347]

Love Zarna. Hysterical

[@lisafiore7081]

Point of clarification, just because you work hard, make sacrifices, hustle, etc doesn't mean you will be lucky enough to find success. I think that the narrative needs to change. Perhaps those who made it to the top of Mtn Everest, aren't sharing everything to the secret of their success. I am sure those hard working sacrifice making successful ppl have more resources than those who don't make.

[@indirasingh774]

Congratulations So proud of y

[@joyfullakashdarade4159]

Amazing Indian lady

[@Dhruv_Dogra]

Her in-laws can't even speak English but they were kept AWAKE ALL NIGHT BY E-MAILS ? ☺️🤣🤣 How did emails in a language they don't know have that effect?

[@vanillajoy2106]

Same doubt,they live in village, don't know english.

[@nsn5564]

My aunts all email in Marathi. Some people are tech savvy. Don't know about her family.

[@HenneCindie]

They are from delhi which is not a village

[@chadatirakul8758]

You are my hero.

[@nellygonzalez4954]

This hindu lady is terrific! So incredibly honest & funny! Love her ❤

[@tobylew8153]

I ❤ her humor!!

[@julest5767]

I was going to say Michelle Obama for Mt Rushmore!!

[@ramagurung3106]

Rock on ZARNA❤️🙏

[@srabontibandyopadhyay5052]

Sorry my mom married at 25! This was over 40 years ago. I don't think 15 has been the norm for any of friends or even the aunts! In fact my mom in law keeps saying she got married too early at 20! My grandmother 70 years ago got married at 18, it really depends on where you are from in India. Which state and city

[@San-sue]

Chill silly girl india is like 5 different countries in one pack okay You never know what’s happening in some part of India right now, some people are still living like in the 20s.

[@mahanarasimhan1867]

But no one can marry at 16 or 17 in India unless you are from a village or someplace remote.

[@travelingartistnilofarmehrin]

"Hang out without a plan" ! 😅 but people like to go to watch baseball ....

[@sitinowak]

That maybe in the big cities but in most part of the U S, people are neighborly.

[@sujatagarud3162]

She is a lawyer..and an Indian. That’s enough

[@LSTEdD1]

Love Zarna...host is a bit over the top!! 🤪

[@samptest2778]

Not sure if people get married in 16 these days or atleast 20 years ago unless it is remote

[@somayehkhatibi2060]

#over it 😅🙈👏

[@minaljhaveri2323]

Yes very lonely here....even if your Indian and born here.

[@sumanrao1739]

Zarna you are hilarious! 😅😂😅 Millions of people are embarrassed by you? NO! It's just that they want you to make fun of Indians only in front of indian audiences. And to avoid making people of other nationalities ridicule India. Also you are rather outdated about India. It's urban India mostly responding to you and urban India is very different from Indian villagers. Don't go by that newspaper you read. Western media oftentimes distorts the situation. Visit India for shows and see what a welcome you get.

[@mc7685]

Even american born comedians dont make a sick joke about mother in law as Zarna does, blown out of proportion just to make some quick bucks and that's fine but it breaks that bond, respect etc that Indian culture has for elder people. To each his own, people are so weird anyway.

[@habit101]

Love you aunty ♥

[@sudheerk67]

Thanks for promoting more Indian stereotypes.. May be it is needed to feed the egos of Western supremacists. Good job.

[@ManpreetSingh-wp2sx]

We have brilliant female engineers, outstanding women doctors. Females are working and are excelling all spheres and their ages vary from around 60.. I admire ur comic timing but please don't give generic statements in India like getting married at 16 is common.. Maam it's not. .

[@sujatagarud3162]

It is very very lonely……no social life.

[@MrAlladin123]

Maybe wait for her to ask the question?

[@Xoyasal57]

Obama ? Oprah ? Say no more. 😢

[@truptidave9862]

The statement is exaggeration!! ==> that in Bharat (India), at age of 15 years, any matrimonial decision is made by Parents. Grand grand parents between 1920-1930 would have been engaged at age of 15 and then also even if they get marry at early age, girl stays at parents home until she is adult to start married life. This arrangements were due to circumstances. Today's Bharat (India) is far progressive and no one would allow to let parents decide their marriages at the age of 15!! 15 is the age when one would be in 9th or 10th grade! Can you even imagine in today's Bharat (India) one would get even engaged!! Even not in Villages!! I like Zarna Garg shows but the fact is fact!! Can not be twisted 🙂

[@vandanasingh5419]

I am 58, I got married at the age of 24, even my mother got married at the age of 18 i don't know which part of India she is talking about

[@dipa2191]

You don’t seem to go out or watch news.

[@lisafiore7081]

Why is it easier for Canadians?

[@poonamshivdasani4320]

She is looking at the most difficult situations with humour. Ridiculous trying to get a 14 year old married and she's uprooted and sent out of her home after losing her mother.

[@indranidutta1945]

Where was your sorrow zarna when your mother died?

[@barbararivera2380]

Darn Zarna, you’re not a Trump supporter. That’s ok. My BFF isn’t either.

[@sujatagarud3162]

Where are you from.? I find it hard to believe that she was asked to get engaged at 15!

[@lisafiore7081]

How was it legal to marry off your daughter in India, in the nineteen nineties, because it wasn't!

[@stuuti2]

Zarna - your version of India is archaic - that doesn't exist anymore. I am sorry you didn't get the freedom to do what you wanted as a kid/teen but it is a very different world now. Remember India has had women president and Prime Minister and your favourite country of choice continues to exhibit that kind of discrepancy at the highest office and oh so openly.

[@MusafirHoonYaro]

Don't forget the women engineers on the Chandrayan team and women scientists on the covid vaccine development team in India!

[@Theddyfield]

Always take every story as that specific story and an inidvidual case, especially about India. Do not project it over all of India. India is so diverse....a HUGE pot and a mix of vivid cultures and every family is different here. Actually! So its her story from her family and does not represent India. She didnt go to the US before or just after independence. She wasnt even born around that time. By the time she was 16 we had pop culture here in India. Many women already had become doctors, business women from IIM (Indira Nooyi) and our current Finance Minister in India, was in college when Zarna probably thought she was restricted. Geeta gopinath, MD of IMF was in Delhi School of Economics. Yes, restriction is a family thing. Community thing and not an India thing. Community is a microscopic entity of India. A village is a microscope in India. I love her comedy - the way she draws American and Indian culture contrasts. But I dont like it when anyone just extrapolates their experience on the whole of the country. We can extrapolate the attitudes of people on certain aspect by far.

[@MaryannFazzone]

I really liked zara until she said Obama or Oprah is who she would like on Mt. Rushmore. But i really still like her.

[@amymargesonia9228]

Interviewer is saying and repeating the obvious. She needs to interrupt less and let Zarna speak more

[@julest5767]

I'm sorry you didn't get a loving dad. His problem, not yours

[@venturasrilanka]

All was great , I think Trump take is wrong!

[@srabontibandyopadhyay5052]

I am all for the all time favorite villain the mil, but what about the Father in law, they can be quite, how do I put it politically correctly, off-putting

[@sk45861]

What is she talking..no its not common for a 16 year old to get married in current india..we have law that prevents women under 21 to get married

[@anon7641]

I don’t like her mother in law jokes!!! She forgets that the mother in law is the mother of her husband! She raised her sonn gave it to Zarna as a good husband

[@truptidave9862]

Hey hey hey!! 15, 16 17 get arranged!!?? With all due respect, i agree to disagree!! Zarna Ji you are talking about, till 1940-1950 era!! Believe you grew up in Bharat (india) during 1970s, 1980s AND that was far ahead of 1940s 1950s era!! Apart from few exceptions there was and there is NO such trend in Bharat (india) to get arranged at age of 15, 16, 17!! during and post 1970s. Kindly correct the facts!!

[@victorialelchuk]

America first doesn't stay with this immigrant

[@SV-lq3yn]

This person is telling a lot of untruths! People who curse Modi publicly are regularly shown on TV- how is that not a free press?? She is a shame and thrives on mocking her own people

[@PriyaMani-hq2tb]

Please relax. It's called comic relief.

[@Dhruv_Dogra]

@@PriyaMani-hq2tb Demonising a head of state is comic relief to you ?

[@Dhruv_Dogra]

You are right... she is playing up to the Democratic party voters of America. She picks her audience very cleverly.

[@caramelavs]

​@@Dhruv_Dograit's ok when they did that to trump?

[@parusahu6961]

She is not doing porn why so much UN cry her jokes are not even offensive.

[@DipayanChowdhury]

YEH SAARE BANIAS/BRAHMINS AMERICA JAAKE "POOR INDIAN IMMIGRANT" KA NATAK KARTE HAIN.

[@DipayanChowdhury]

YEH SAARE BANIAS/BRAHMINS AMERICA JAAKE "POOR INDIAN IMMIGRANT" KA NATAK KARTE HAIN.

[@DipayanChowdhury]

YEH SAARE BANIAS/BRAHMINS AMERICA JAAKE "POOR INDIAN IMMIGRANT" KA NATAK KARTE HAIN.