A Quick Trip to India

Recently, I went on a trip to India to visit my family. It had been almost ten years since I had been, and it seemed like so much had changed. Throughout my trip, I spent most of my time visiting various family members and attending different functions. Life in India differs so much from life in the U.S., but while shopping and walking around the cities, it made me wish that more of the media I had seen growing up represented the beauty of this country.

I've talked about my experience of growing up while Desi, but I had one main problem as a child: there was a woeful lack of representation of my culture in the media. I wish I had been able to see how India truly is portrayed on the big screen, a country filled with too many people and all of their stories, people who aren't afraid to drive into oncoming traffic without batting an eyelash. So here is a little of my own representation: snapshots from rural India to some of the cities.