So I decided to join the website to get back in social contact at some level with fellow indians as I have been living in US for past 8 years (just graduated from UCSB) and am finally going back to my small border town of Bahadurgarh, Haryana for an extended period of time (about 8 months) after which ill be back in California for graduate school. Anyways in a big way, this is my final completion of circle as I will be returning back to my society, culture, family, community etc. after maturing through just an insurmountable amount of perspectives, ideas, personal beliefs that have profoundly changed me for rest of my life- and more importantly in a way which I think would not have been possible in india due to the lack of intellectualism or its promotion in general.
The diary will most likely be a place where I will post most of changes I have personally gone through as part of living outside india, and the aspects of indian life that I have come to appreciate and categorize into a cultural theme, also due to my emigrating from india at the ripe age. In general, people usually view NRI with a negative connotation, as someone who has been diluted from their culture/traditions or complete absence from it. I think its the complete opposite ,atleast in my case, where you learn to accept the best of both worlds as well as criticize the aspects of your own culture that you might have indulged previously in due to the fact that conformity to the society's rules is prevalent all over india. Not to mention that most of our culture is religious related, and so being an atheist or science oriented seems to contradict with most of it naturally. But that does not mean I havent found other sections of our daily life that are not only inspiring but amusing in a purely desi way.
P.S. check out my blog at rickshawride.blogspot.com ; ill be updating it more often now as ill be spending 4-5 months in india.
