Nagesh and Rangan left for the US in 1997, spent 10 years before returning to India. They talk about the life of an NRI in the US prior to Google, building early career, settling in US and the reasons to return to India. Lots of interesting insights and details

Gagan worked in India for 3 years before moving to Ireland for MS and worked there for 4 years before deciding to return to India. Gagan talks about his life in India before deciding to go abroad, life there and his work life balance after returning to India. 

Nagesh and Rangan left for the US in 1997, spent 10 years before returning to India. They talk about the life of an NRI in the US prior to Google, building early career, settling in US and the reasons to return to India. Lots of interesting insights and details

Topics covered

• Background 

Hemanth’s family spent more than  4 years in the US and 3 years in Sweden before returning back to India as part of internal company transfer. Hemant tried moving back to India a couple of times.  Hemant talks about the loneliness, social life, cycle of immigrant, reasons to move back, finance planning and much more 

Manvi’s family went to the US as part of internal company transfer and spent 6 years in the US before moving back to India. Manvi talks about how they loved US and what made them return to India, kids life in US vs india, logistics of the move, career transition and much more.

Ankush went to US as part of internal company transfer and spent 12 years in US before moving back to India. Ankush had a good social life, good professional career and work life balance while living in the US. Ankush talks about what made their family move back to India, how they approached the timing when they want to move and plan the move as well as which city to settle.

Nupur went to US for masters, worked at google, lived american life for 13 years before moving to India. Nupur has been working with govt, start-ups, and large organizations since moving to India. Nupur also explored several opportunities and wrote three books. Nupur has also helped 1000+ NRIs and Indians to get clarity of living abroad or in India. Lots of candid conversations and insights. 

Here’s some of the topics we covered:

Background

Reason for moving back

Social/work life in US vs India

Misconceptions of living in India 

Career transition from technology to arts

How did the idea of retiring worked out for her?

Perspective on Financial Planning

Info about 3 books

Any topics that we haven’t covered?

Advice for the future aspirants

Rajiv and Meena spent 20 years in the US before moving back to India. They have been living in India for 10 years. They talk about how they planned the move, kids education,  work culture, career transition, social life, cost of living etc.,

Aditya was working in India before moving to the UK to pursue an MBA degree. After graduating, Aditya worked in a VC firm to appreciate the business landscape and decided to move back to India to take care of family business, where he is planning to bring technology to tea leaf business. Aditya shares his thoughts of the corporate world vs traditional family business as well as work culture differences between India and UK.

Ranjani lived in the US  for 14 years before moving back to India in 2000’s and currently living in Singapore. She shares her journey to move back to India, leading a life and raising kid as a single mom in India, perspective of life living in different countries. Ranjani is a writer and she shares information about her books and work related to writing columns about return to India for a newspaper.