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Hello! And welcome to Bangalored.com and The Reverse Diaspora blog!

Bangalored (adj). Having lost business or employment due to a relocation of a business function to India.

Reverse Daispora (phr). When the Daispora retruns to the homeland, only to discover that they are "foreigners" in the land they left.

I have now spent just a little less than half my life in the US of A. I am in the process of moving back to India - over the last one year I have spent ten months in India. I miss beautiful Milwaukee, but what is happening today in India is so exciting, I wouldn't want to miss it at any cost. :-) So now I am "stranger in the land of my birth" - hence the title of this blog...

Why this blog? I want to write about what I see in India - a very different place from where I grew up. And I have seen all of India (except Assam and some of those smaller states - they used to be called union territories). But my perspective is now American - its where I "grew up" in a different sense.

Of course the natural tendency is going to be - why cant "X" be like it is in America, it works great there? But that would be narrow-minded - India is different and always will be. How boring if Pune looked like Milwaukee and everyone acted like Milwaukeeans.

If America is a Melting Pot, then India is a Boiling Cauldron. Everything is changing - and fast. In India…

The entropy is amazing!
The growth is stupendous!
It’s a crucible of a free market!
It’s a dream of Darwinism!
It’s a nightmare for the righteous!
It will make you question everything you believe.

See you next time, with more details…..