Five Burning Questions I’m Asking Myself Before Leaving for India Tomorrow

Nandini Balial
4 min readNov 10, 2022

It’s my first visit in 16 years.

With Dadu, age 1. (Photo credit: Nandini Balial)

Q: You moved to America when you were 9, and haven’t visited India since you were 14 (summer 2004), nor since 3 out of your 4 grandparents died, including the one pictured above who raised you. How will you deal with the emotional turmoil of your first visit in over 15 years to the country of your birth?

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Nandini Balial

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