Addiing another data point to this discussion. On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Venkat Mangudi <[email protected]> wrote: > I came back because I feel I belong here. Everywhere else, I am a > foreigner.
I feel I do not belong anywhere, at the same time, feel at home everywhere. > You'll be surprised how people can change if your skin is a > different color. The worst experience was in a mall in Fremont, CA. > Somebody once told me CA was the most broadminded state. All that is > nonsense. Kentucky treated me better, I think. Interestingly, I have been treated worse in India by people who thought I could not speak their language (because I had long hair, ear piercings, dressed and carried myself differently, etc.) than in deepest Dixieland. > But I digress. Before I > get back to the mainstream discussion, let me state for the record that > some of my best friends are not Indian and hence I am not biased against > non Indians. Even though I live in some country for the moment and travel to others for reasons of leisure, work and family, I feel at home in all of them. When I was working in Bangalore a few years ago, the reasons for my (temporary) return to that particular city were: * Access to some of the western comforts I had gotten used to - food, culture. * Relatively ease in travelling within the city using auto rickshaws. * Ability to travel through a state I had not travelled widely through in the past. Thaths PS: Aawara Hoon.... -- "Silly Indians. Our God made their God" -- Homer J. Simpson
