I was reading a feature in the Mumbai Mirror yesterday, about six people who left their high paying professional jobs to follow their passion and pursue a career in cinema. It made me start thinking of myself and the giant leap of faith I took. However, the big difference between me and those people was that I had no idea of the direction I wanted my life to go in when I left my job. And I was hardly enthusiastic creating my new reality. I had to be pushed by a crisis of mass proportion…
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Yesterday I wrote about my American friend who wanted to date an Indian girl. As part of trying to understand why it was so difficult to date an Indian, he asked me about my relationship. I’ve not only dated an Indian, I’ve also married an Indian. My friend wanted to know what was so different about my situation, and why it has been possible for me….
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We’re spending five days in Kolkata, where we first met and where my life started changing forever. It’s a very strange experience being back here. The place is still the same but so much has changed now. People have moved on, we’ve moved on. The same familiar faces aren’t seen out at the same familiar places anymore….
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Fear and apprehension welled up inside me as the plane commenced its decent into Kolkata. It wasn’t going to be my first time in India. I’d been there twice before. To me, India felt like and old yet unpredictable friend. One whose behavior I could never be sure of, but I liked anyway….
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