"An outsider in the town where I was born
Is it true that there's no place like home? Our writer was posted back to her home town of Mumbai, but with all the bells and whistles of expat life.
I loved living in Istanbul; I hated the thought of leaving. Turkey is a beautiful country with gentle people and I immersed myself as wholeheartedly as a foreigner can in its culture, language and people. I read and discussed its problems with great interest and sympathy, but – and this is key - with a sense of detachment. This was the biggest adjustment, on returning home. "
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