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

3. What do you like most about being abroad?
Everything.

4. What do like least about being abroad?
Nothing.

5. Would you be concerned about raising your family outside India?
Not at all.

6. What are your thoughts about marrying outside your immediate community, someone who speaks a different language or practices a different religion?
I am married, don't care.

7. What would be the first thing you would do if you became the Prime Minister of India?
Ban communism.

8. What do you think are India's greatest strengths?(max 3)
None.

9. What do you think are the biggest problems facing India? (max 3)
Politicians.

10. Do you think that a presidential form of government would better serve the needs of India's democracy?
Definitely.

11. For whom do you have the highest regard amongst living Indians?
(no comment)

12. Do you think that the national obsession with Cricket has helped or has it hurt India as a sporting nation?
Of course. That is a junk game.

13. What do you think are India's greatest achievement since Independence (max 3)?
Information Technology.

14. What is your favourite pastime?
Oracle.

15. What is your happiest memory?
To board the flight to US.

16. What's your most memorable journey?
Flight from Bombay to Boston.

17. What is your ultimate food dish?
Anything South Indian.

18. What are your favourite movies? (max 3)
No, I do not watch movies.

19. What are your favourite books (please list authors as well)? (max 3)
Professional Oracle.

20. A message from you to other NRIs
(no comment)

- Sandip Raha in Sunnyvale, California, USA

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