2. Do you plan to return to India to settle down?
No.

3. What do you like most about being abroad?
Individualism, freedom.

4. What do like least about being abroad?
Missing my family and friends.

5. Would you be concerned about raising your family outside India?
A little. You lose somthing to gain somthing.

6. What are your thoughts about marrying outside your immediate community, someone who speaks a different language or practices a different religion?
We cannot live in fear. This is the biggest quetion we face. That should be decided before leaving home.

7. What would be the first thing you would do if you became the Prime Minister of India?
Get rid of political and other forms of corruption. However this will be impossible, so I will legalise it.

8. What do you think are India's greatest strengths?(max 3)
Man power.

9. What do you think are the biggest problems facing India? (max 3)
1) Population
2) Corruption
3) Inflation

10. Do you think that a presidential form of government would better serve the needs of India's democracy?
No.

11. For whom do you have the highest regard amongst living Indians?
Every individual who has come here with a dream.

12. Do you think that the national obsession with Cricket has helped or has it hurt India as a sporting nation?
Helps.

13. What do you think are India's greatest achievements since Independence? (max 3)?
Everything since I left India in 1967.

14. What is your favourite pastime?
Music listening , internetting.

15. What is your happiest memory?
Rural life and no pressures.

16. What's your most memorable journey?
To China and Hawaii.

17. What is your ultimate food dish?
Manh ki daal.

18. What are your favourite movies? (max 3)
1) Mother India
2) Yadien
3) Mugal-e-Azam

19. What are your favourite books (please list authors as well)? (max 3)
1) Glimpsis of World histroy
2) My experiments with truth
3) Rich and famous like us

20. A message from you to other NRIs
If you are missing your home you are not alone. We are all together.

- Baldev Sood, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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