How does it feel when one country says you are an NRI and the other country says you’re an Indian?

Maintaining a dual identity can be very tiring, especially for a woman! The world keeps expecting from her and she keeps fulfilling their expectations, leaving very little scope for realising her real identity! If she expresses her Indian thinking amongst non-Indian people, she can’t identify with any of them and if she, while dealing with people from the Indian community, behaves in a non-Indian way, questions are raised.

At one point she may hear people say, “Where are her Indian values?” At other points they may compliment, “She is so cultured, even after her foreign bringing up!” The identity keeps changing with the perspectives of the people around you!

The mental conflict may have been on for ages, but she has decided to look at the positive aspect of it! With travelling and exposure from interacting with people from different cultures, she has an advantage of inheriting the best of both the worlds!

In fact, being away from her country makes her hold on even tighter to her culture… because it makes her feel close to her homeland! Cultural events flourish and social groups originate making the Indian community a lot more closely integrated than it is even here!

The NRI women of today smoothly blend in the goodies of both the regions, giving shape to a well-toned culture for her generations to come! No longer can they be called ‘American Based Confused Desi’!