Borrowing the title of this post from a Bollywood film, starring superstar Shahrukh Khan, favourite among the Non – Resident Indian (NRI) masses, I can totally understand why people of the Indian diaspora feel connected to their motherland through Bollywood and religion. Living for 7 months away from India, on one hand, it has increased my curiosity about the world, but at the same time, it has deepened my interest for anything and everything Indian – food, music, religion, culture, economy, business, people …
Simply put, you can take the Indian out of India, but not the ‘Indianess’ out of the Indian; Indianess in quotes, because it holds a diverse range of meanings and notions for different people, but it binds us all together !
My favourite song while reminiscing about the motherland –
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