Rvaidya Nathan

A passage to India

Why I went east – and many other young British Asians are doing the same

issue 29 September 2012

When my parents emigrated from India in the 1960s, they sought what might be called the ‘-British dream’: stability, opportunity and the chance of a better life in the world’s third-largest economy. So when I told my parents that I was moving to India for the same sort of reasons, they were shocked.

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