1. Why did you leave India?
For higher education.
2. Do you plan to return to India to settle down?
Yes/No Kerala.
3. What do you like most about being abroad?
Freedom with responsibility
4. What do like least about being abroad?
Food, social life
5. Would you be concerned about raising your family outside India?
Yes.
6. What are your thoughts about marrying outside your immediate community, someone who speaks a different language or practices a different religion?
Exciting but difficult in practice.
7. What would be the first thing you would do if you became the Prime Minister of India?
Improve sanitary conditions in India.
8. What do you think are India's greatest strengths?(max 3)
1. People
2. Religion
3. Family attachment
9. What do you think are the biggest problems facing India? (max 3)
Over population and lack of material resources
10. Do you think that a presidential form of government would better serve the needs of India's democracy?
Yes
11. For whom do you have the highest regard amongst living Indians?
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12. Do you think that the national obsession with Cricket has helped or has it hurt India as a sporting nation?
Hurt India.
13. What do you think are India's greatest achievements since Independence? (max 3)?
1. Nationalize railways and provide cheap travel
2. Lingustic states.
3. Cheap electricity.
14. What is your favourite pastime?
Gardening.
15. What is your happiest memory?
Onam festival in Kerala.
16. What's your most memorable journey?
From Kerala by train to Gorakpur in Uttar Pradesh in 1953.
17. What is your ultimate food dish?
Fish Curry.
18. What are your favourite movies? (max 3)
1. Sound of Music
19. What are your favourite books (please list authors as well)? (max 3)
1. War and Peace
2. Mother Earth
3. Animal Farm
20. A message from you to other NRIs
We must be proud of our heritage.
- Abraham Abraham
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