These NRIs

One day I would really like to know what goes on in the minds of NRIs when they visit India. Do they secretly thank the day when they or their parents were granted work permits of The US of A or they actually miss their homeland. If given a chance will they really like to relocate themselves back to India as is often declared by them? Why India still holds an attraction to them? Do they come back to meet their family or is it the charm of being treated as a royalty.

India with all its shortcomings or for that matter any country/ state where you have grown up, does holds a special place in our memories. We are moved if any thing related to the place is in the news, we are always curious about the people we grew up with. We even go back to the shops where we are recognized by the owner and the attendants. Similar is with the NRIs who have moved base to foreign land. Or this is what it should be? But more often i have witnessed a huge shift in there loyalties. India to them is a convenient place to shop, to pile up their wardrobe with ethnic clothes, and Indian kitchen equipments as one gets them cheap here.

They demand/require special treatment, claiming weakened immunity because of living in super clean environment. I know its not fair to generalize. But this is the attitude most NRIs are afflicted with. Somehow it doesn't makes sense to me then why do they waste their holidays and money in a land so dusty and anarchic.

Now when India too can boast of malls and better living conditions available to middle class, it leaves them almost disappointed. The very customs which are a burden to them in India become a reason for their weekend get together.

Now, please excuse me for what I am writing is just one side of the story and their justifications are yet to reach me. But till then, I refuse being treated as some ignorant country cousin.!

OOps was that too harsh!!

Still all my friends and relative abroad are welcome to India and my humble house, coz its through them I see world in its hi-tech avatar.