The 18 year old UK born son of a friend of mine from Mumbai told me that a Kenyan-Indian friend asked him if he had been to Kenya. When he replied that he had not, the Kenyan-Indian asked him reproachfully if he "did not care" for his home country.
Having said that - it seems to be a common observation that Indians who leave India in a particular era have the memory of India and Indian culture "frozen" in that era, and do all that they can to keep that encapsulated cultural memory alive, even as India itself moves on and evolves. I used to think that I was the only person on earth who had noticed this, but it was pointed out by a 20 year old Indian American girl (in a TV interview) who had been sent to India (for a proper education) by parents whose memories of India were frozen (according to the girl) in the 1970s. shiv On Thu April 27 2006 20:35, Ashok Hariharan wrote: > funny thing with the indians here, the ones who were born in kenya have > usually never thought of visiting India and have little > idea of how the country is or has changed in the last 100 years.
