New Delhi Times!

I have arrived in New Delhi and although I haven't been back for two years, it feels so ridiculously like home that it doesn't even have that magical air of going abroad. I have been hanging out with my cousins, aunt and grandmother, as well as my mother who is much more American-ized than I am and is continuously flustered by India whereas I revel in the chaotic culture I have come to call my own. One of the greatest benefits of having lived in the humble culture of a village for six months, is that when I see parts of India - I am not speculating on how people's lives are because I know it and lived it and my family and the people in the village view me as part of it as much as them (I called my family in Bighana today). I am excited to go to the South and experience the new world, but it is nice to know that this country feels so much like home to me, it makes me appreciate how the last time I came here very clueless with goals to combat my ignorance of my roots and uncover a deeper understanding of this place (updside down from my world in the states) and that is something that I truly did accomplish.