Watch this video on CBS News on the link below and you'll weep why you left India.

You left your old parents, grandparents, your brothers/sisters, nieces and nephews and secondary support system.

Now you are running behind baby sitters, nannies and old age homes.

I donot deny India is also changing but not to the extent in the West.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/25/eveningnews/main6140105.shtml

This random choice from space, followed by a random choice on ground leads to this person.

What a wonderful family and hospitality to a stranger.

Look at the old Dadhi blessing this firangi.


The WEST definitely learnt a lesson from the EAST.

Is it really worth migrating?

You decide!.

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Everyone in the World Has a Story: India

Steve Hartman tells us the story of a 78-year-old blind man who feels his way to work every day, who has accepted his disability and lives comfortably with his 13 family members in India.


Steve Hartman will travel the world at random to prove that everyone has a story. Along the journey, he finds that although there are many differences, there are also striking similarities.

Steve Hartman meets Khushi Ram Goyal and his family in Rewari, India.

Everybody Has a Story

Three countries are chosen for the CBS Evening News series Everybody in the World Has a Story.

In Everybody Has a Story, every two weeks someone threw a dart at a map of America. CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman then went wherever it stuck, flipped through the local phone book, and picked a name at random. He then did a story on someone at that house.

With the help of space-age technology, Steve Hartman goes global as he begins a new series - Everyone in the World has a Story.


When CBS News and NASA launched this project -- to find stories that show who we really are as a planet -- the first question everyone had was -- where on Earth do you begin? To which astronaut Jeff Williams answered.

His random stab at the globe sent us to India. The tip of his finger fell on a town southwest of Delhi - called Rewari.

Rewari is, by India standards, a sleepy, little town of just one million people. It's far enough off the beaten path that many who live here have never seen an American before.

There's one gentleman here, who will never see one. Every morning 78-year-old Khushi Ram Goyal feels his way to work. Before he went blind in his mid 20's - most likely from a parasite - Khushi Ram was a grade school teacher. Now he mills wheat into flour by grinding out a living of $4 a day.



When I realized this problem would not end, I accepted it in a positive way,he said. And thought, this is the way God wants me to live.

Still, being blind and going through old age in a low-wage in a country like India - I tried to imagine how difficult and lonely that would be. And boy oh boy, did I image wrong. Khushi Ram Goyal lives quite comfortably, actually.

He shares a house with 13 family members who welcomed me like their long lost 14th.

They kept bringing me nan - their bread - and said, eat just one more - just one more - no really, just one more.

Khushi Ram has been married to his wife, Kassmiri for 57 years.

I never saw any problem and was happy to feed our children with whatever little we had,she said.

Kassmiri says her husband took whatever job he could to support his family. She was clearly proud and grateful for this chance to tell the world how far they've come.

I was impressed with how the family gets by.

Four generations -- not only share one roof - but one bank account. Ram Avtar, a son, works as a contractor. Khushi Ram's other son runs a coffee shop. His grandson sells auto parts and everything goes in one pot.

I also couldn't help but notice how there always seemed to be someone watching grandpa. Whether he knew it or not, there was always someone just making sure -- that if he ever did need help, it would be right there.

In another country, in another life you might be on your own,Hartman said.

Yes, and I would feel, 'What is the use of having family?he replied. If I am in a bad situation and get shooed away like flies from milk, then, really, what kind of family would that be?

In America, a lot of parents say the last thing they want is to be a burden on their children. Likewise, a lot of kids don't want to be burdened by their parents. Too bad we can't all see like the blind man.

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Sunny Leone a true Canadian DESI now back in India !.

Vandemataram:

I wish you are more objective in your posts. I wish you also wrote, about issues one faces when one returns to India. You could have written about what life would be for a person returning to India, from various angles.

Instead, you simply wrote "Watch this video on CBS News on the link below and you'll weep why you left India"
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Your post smacks of being maudlin, to say the least. No situation is the "best" People have different perspectives on life, depending on what their priorities are.

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Originally posted by ILOVENA

Vandemataram:

I wish you are more objective in your posts. I wish you also wrote, about issues one faces when one returns to India. You could have written about what life would be for a person returning to India, from various angles.

Instead, you simply wrote "Watch this video on CBS News on the link below and you'll weep why you left India"
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Your post smacks of being maudlin, to say the least. No situation is the "best" People have different perspectives on life, depending on what their priorities are.

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