Mama Bhatia asked me often, before I began my fellowship, why exactly I was going back to the place they had worked so hard to leave. It was something I couldn't explain, an innate curiousity about life as my parents used to live it and as cousins my age whose parents didn't shift (read: move) to the States were living it now.
"Which raises a heart-stirring question: If our parents left India and trudged westward for us, if they manufactured from scratch a new life there for us, if they slogged, saved, sacrificed to make our lives lighter than theirs, then what does it mean when we choose to migrate to the place they forsook?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/weekinreview/23anand.html?_r=1&em
I have no answers, only more questions.
Yay that I still have 8 months?!?
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