A choice between comfort of overseas and home country

“No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.” ~ Joseph Brodsky

Non Resident Indians (NRIs) are the expatriates from India who have migrated to other countries in search of better future. These NRIs are happily settled in their adopted countries, but often frequent their homeland, India, to visit their friends, families and the memories they have left behind. In most of the cases, the NRIs are citizens or permanent residents of the countries they have migrated to, but consider India as their true homeland.
Most of these overseas Indians or NRIs are well settled in the new country. The new culture, the new life and the new comforts have created a strong bond to the new land. Majority of these NRIs bring their loved ones over to live with them and often have the whole family living abroad. Even though the ties with the past remain, the family – especially the younger generation - has a strong attachment to the Western lifestyle. This is the natural influence of local culture and social settings; the natural effect of the long term exposure to the western society. Read the rest of this entry »

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