http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-19992062
Why would you leave the West for India?
Rajiv Khatri is one such example. He moved to the southern city of Bangalore from America. I meet him and his three friends, all OCI card holders from the US, as they tuck into French fries and nachos.
Rajiv Khatri now calls India home
When Rajiv packed his bags for India four years ago, his parents were less than impressed.
"They were very stressed out and frustrated at me moving here. Even now, they're still praying that I go back to the US."
Rajiv's father left India in 1972, his mother followed in1978, building a successful and stable life in the US. That their children,(Rajiv's brother has also moved to India) are chasing opportunity on the other side of the globe, is a fact hard to comprehend.
They're not alone, so many of the generation who left India in the 1960s and 1970s (my parents included) find it hard to understand why their children would give up the so-called American or British dream, in search of the opposite, the Indian dream.
Rajiv says he cannot imagine moving back to America anytime soon. As an entrepreneur, he runs a health and wellness start-up -360living.in - with two other bright and articulate Indian Americans who moved to India, Rahul Thadani and Raj Chinai.
Rajiv says that he, his wife Sarah and their three children have a better lifestyle than they had Stateside, but the real pull was being able to connect to the India he had heard about, but never really knew.
"I was always seen as different in the US, and I always had cultural and ancestral roots to India - so for me coming back to India is a bit like coming 'home' - in so many ways it's where I come from. I wanted to have a greater impact from where my roots are and I think for a lot of people who are of Indian origin that's one of the driving factors."
Why would you leave the West for India?
Rajiv Khatri is one such example. He moved to the southern city of Bangalore from America. I meet him and his three friends, all OCI card holders from the US, as they tuck into French fries and nachos.
Rajiv Khatri now calls India home
When Rajiv packed his bags for India four years ago, his parents were less than impressed.
"They were very stressed out and frustrated at me moving here. Even now, they're still praying that I go back to the US."
Rajiv's father left India in 1972, his mother followed in1978, building a successful and stable life in the US. That their children,(Rajiv's brother has also moved to India) are chasing opportunity on the other side of the globe, is a fact hard to comprehend.
They're not alone, so many of the generation who left India in the 1960s and 1970s (my parents included) find it hard to understand why their children would give up the so-called American or British dream, in search of the opposite, the Indian dream.
Rajiv says he cannot imagine moving back to America anytime soon. As an entrepreneur, he runs a health and wellness start-up -360living.in - with two other bright and articulate Indian Americans who moved to India, Rahul Thadani and Raj Chinai.
Rajiv says that he, his wife Sarah and their three children have a better lifestyle than they had Stateside, but the real pull was being able to connect to the India he had heard about, but never really knew.
"I was always seen as different in the US, and I always had cultural and ancestral roots to India - so for me coming back to India is a bit like coming 'home' - in so many ways it's where I come from. I wanted to have a greater impact from where my roots are and I think for a lot of people who are of Indian origin that's one of the driving factors."
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