I filmed this episode from a hotel patio in New Delhi - and that alone felt strange to say.
I hadn’t really been in India like this for almost six years. In that time, I moved countries, built a career, left a stable job, and quietly questioned who I was more times than I can count.
On this trip, someone casually called me a “white Indian.”
They didn’t mean it harshly -but it hit me harder than I expected.
In the West, I’m Indian.
In India, I’m foreign.
And somewhere along the way, I realised I’d been living between identities, constantly adapting, softening parts of myself, and editing who I was just to fit in.
This episode isn’t about answers - it’s about realisations.
We talk about:
What it feels like to be a “foreign Indian” in your own country
Code-switching, accents, and editing yourself to belong
Why living between cultures isn’t a weakness - it’s perspective
A Māori concept about roots that finally made sense to me in India
Seeing your parents’ past not as pressure, but as a launchpad
Why family is the hardest - and most important - relationship
And the realisation that you don’t find identity… you decide it
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