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Gautam: I was born in Islington in North London but moved to the US when I was 5, and so I don’t remember the journey much. But I remember it was winter when we arrived and I remembering loving to stamp about in the snow. But my parents were both born in India, my mum’s family moved to London in 1947, just before India’s independence, when she was 2, and much later my dad came over for school at 16. But so being Indian and looking Indian everyone always assumed I was from there, but growing up, India was largely this mystery for me. Until recently India was sort of embodied for me by my grandparent’s, because as I was growing up they were my only window into Indian culture.
Gautam: I was born in Islington in North London but moved to the US when I was 5, and so I don’t remember the journey much. But I remember it was winter when we arrived and I remembering loving to stamp about in the snow. But my parents were both born in India, my mum’s family moved to London in 1947, just before India’s independence, when she was 2, and much later my dad came over for school at 16. But so being Indian and looking Indian everyone always assumed I was from there, but growing up, India was largely this mystery for me. Until recently India was sort of embodied for me by my grandparent’s, because as I was growing up they were my only window into Indian culture.
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