Depth N Green

Serendipity would be a good brand name for Pushpir Bhetia’s life if not his line of high-quality Indian food products, better known by the label Depth N Green.

It was seemingly by chance, after all, that the then 26-year-old native of New Delhi landed in New York City in 1997 and moved quickly from doing odd jobs to owning a line of cellphone stores to finding himself in Boston, serving food as Guru the Caterer and now staffing a new business’ table at this summer’s Kendall Square farmers market. He will be at that location every Thursday from Noon to 6 p.m. until the market closes Nov. 16.

“I still love New York City,” Bhetia says wistfully, but after 9/11, “the whole city vibe became very odd, very different. I’m a Sikh. We have a beard and turban … our lives were not the same and our wives wanted to move a little farther away.”

Bhetia was standing at West 72nd Street and Broadway talking to his cousin soon thereafter, explaining his interest in moving not too far from his in-laws in Queens. “Suddenly I saw a Greyhound bus go by with a Boston sign,” he remembers. He asked his cousin if he knew anyone there. “He said he knows somebody who knows somebody.” Bhetia was on the road at daybreak the next day. By 10:30 a.m., he was walking down Newbury Street. “I called my wife by 11 o’clock and said, we are moving. She said, you’ve been there hardly for half an hour, but I said ‘Trust me. I feel like I’m really in America now.’”