It wasn't easy to get there though. My port of entry was London airport, and not Dover Beach in a dinghy; hence, I had to furnish my property papers, six months of bank statements, and my firstborn to get entry. I hope the immigration official had fun parsing the 57 pages of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions.
A sudden development of thick skin is a unique trait of Indians who migrate overseas—or even those applying for a tourist visa. No amount of casual racism, bigotry, rudeness, and requirement of income-tax returns deters them; they just laugh it off. They just comply. The same people who would break your rearview mirror if you dared to overtake them in India would suggest you ignore a racial slur while standing in a ticket queue in Glasgow. Everything is a means to an end. The end is to stay put, till the time your passport changes colour.
Back home, after a few anxious days, the family got their passports back, duly stamped. It suddenly struck me that our kid is just three years old and has done three international trips this year. Whereas I took my first flight at the age of 24 and my mother took hers at the age of 48. Not just that, she boarded the AC coach on a train for the first time around the same age. That's how India is growing. Each generation is doing better than the previous, but it is taking longer to get married and produce kids.
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Assembly Session to Begin from Jan 31
The third session of the 16th Rajasthan legislative assembly will commence on January 31, assembly speaker Vasudev Devnani said on Wednesday after reviewing the preparations for the session.
Forest dept to track leopard population amid rise in man-animal conflict: Official
Amid the rise number of leopards and human-wildlife conflict in Rajasthan, state forest minister Sanjay Sharma on Wednesday directed officials concerned to keep a track of the population of leopards, excluding those in Tiger Reserves, in protected areas using the camera trap method, officials familiar with the matter said.
Expert: Jaisalmer May Have Links To Tethys Sea
Eruption of water at a borewell drilling site in Mohangarh region in Jaisalmer has led to claims of the city's proximity to the Tethys Sea, an ocean that existed about 250 million years ago.
Expert: Jaisalmer May Have Links to Tethys Sea
Days after the leakage of gas and water during a tubewell drilling operation in the desert region of Jaisalmer, an ONGC team in its report has advised against attempting to remove the trapped truck and machinery, citing such action could trigger another round of water and gas leakage.
Govt Sanctions Women Police Battalion In Three Districts
The state government on Wednesday gave financial and administrative sanction for the constitution of women police battalion in Sikar, Alwar and Barmer district of Rajasthan, an official familiar with the matter said.
Govt Merges 190 Schools Over Zero Enrollment and Poor Infra
The government has merged at least 190 primary and upper primary schools across the state that have been running with zero enrollment and poor infrastructures, officials familiar with the matter said.
Asaram moves HC to suspend life sentence
Self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, convicted of sexually assaulting a minor, on Wednesday moved the Rajasthan high court seeking suspension of the life sentence awarded to him by the special court in Jodhpur.
Need talks on ancient languages, says official
More discussions on Sanskrit and other ancient Indian languages are important to develop the value system of Indian society, said Neeraj K Pawan, secretary of sports department.
Elgar Parishad Case: Bail to Rona Wilson, Sudhir Dhawale
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted bail to researcher Rona Wilson and activist Sudhir Dhawale, both arrested in 2018 in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
Army divers retrieve body of one miner from flooded 300-foot-deep coal mine in Assam
Indian army divers retrieved the body of one of at least nine miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in India's northeastern Assam state, officials said Wednesday.
