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WELCOME BACK NRIs are glad to be back
“Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend”, said Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once. The moment of homecoming fills one with a sense of belonging. To some homecoming is a ploy to shake away the nostalgia that had gripped their minds all the years through.
Hyderabad city has had a tradition of highest rate of expatriating on all grounds: work, education, business or simply the “foreign-mania”. To be abroad is neighbour’s envy. But at the end of the day love matters more to the beseeching eyes. And the earnest prayers of those left behind guard their kin throughout. But do the returnees reciprocate the same level of affection? Are their social and personal relationships altered in any ways? What factors either build or distort or foster or simply negate their relationships and do they meet the emotional needs of their loved ones after homecoming?
“Relationships on a personal front haven’t changed much,” says Srirama, a Senior Project Manager with Verizon. “Though I was well-received by others, it is a fact that at times people can get defensive. Initially there could be comparisons and they could formulate a certain class of people who are or not at par with each other. But eventually it boils down to the point that we share the same roots. It falls in our realm as to how comfortable we make others feel for which a mutual cultural blend is a must. Some people even have complaints that things looked rosier abroad but I have no qualms whatsoever after my come-back.”
Sumathi , a homemaker says, “I lived overseas for a decade with my family. I think I valued my homeland and my people even more so. Fostering of relationships is partly the innate urge and partly the indoctrination of family-values. There is no sacrosanct process but my faith in the family that sets me to see them going offshore.”
Sam Kumar, Director of Regulatory Affairs at BioGenex Life Sciences takes a philosophical stance, “People are the celebrations really, and it’s not the event. Relationships can be volatile but relationships are symbolic of existence and existence is to be cherished, whether human or not is immaterial! My level of communication with them hasn’t varied in any degree because people are meant to be celebrated. Life is a celebration of joy unbounded.”
“People have indeed changed in terms of the curiosity they show towards my work and the level of information and knowledge I have gained. On a personal level, people are just the same”, says Abhinandan Reddy who is currently pursuing a PhD in the US. “As a result of my work with the UN in war-torn Kosovo, I have changed a lot in the way I look at people, and I’m more sensitive, understanding and calm towards them when compared to earlier. It is just the false egos, bureaucracy and lethargy that cause negativity in our society.”
Interesting that we may find, but no matter where we go, the native soil always beckons us. A tamed animal always traces its way back from the wilderness. If it is a mammalian instinct, so be it, so long as it does good treading the path of solidarity.
DIVYATA RAVI PRAKAASH
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