Desi Return Diaries

Aashi worked in different countries before returning to India for work and has been living in India for 6 years. Aashi provides insights about work culture between developed vs developing countries and interesting views of indian work culture. She talks about diversity, women empowerment as well as some challenges and experience living in India. 

Banu lived in the US for 14 years before returning to India. Banu explored job opportunities in India a couple of times to explore the option of moving back and finally moved as part of internal transfer with his current employer. Banu talks about this his experience working in a product based vs service company. Banu also shares insights about cost of living as well as living lifestyle in India. 

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In this episode, Karthik dives into different types of FIRE and why one who lived in abroad and planning to return to India has a best shot to be financially independent. He also shares specific details into how to plan and  be able to execute it. Don't miss this if you are considering retirement in India. Also check out his episode on his R2I journey on episode 4

Malvika and Ajay share their journey of going to the US for MS/MBA and living there for 12 years before returning to India. They have been living in Bangalore for 5 years.  Ajay talks about this transition to begin a startup company in India and the startup ecosystem in India. Malvika talks about transitioning with the same company to India, then transitioned to pet grooming as well as teaching and how they planned the move. 

Suyash shares his journey of returning to India after living in the US for 10 years to be part of a big joint family.  He describes the thoughtful planning to relocate and the importance of upbringing kids as part of a joint family. Suyash shares his family experience living in India for 5 years

Here’s some of the topics we covered:

• Background and reasons to move back to India 

Shravan and Tejasvi  share a candid conversation on the reasons to move to the US. After living there for 9.5 years, they decided to reignite Shravan’s career progression and Tejasvi to start her own business by returning to India. They share their personal work culture experience in India and advice to future returnee aspirants.

Shweta, an IIT graduate moved to the US to explore the opportunities after working in India for a few years. She shares her story of returning to India and life of living in a Tier2 city as an early retiree and how they started their own start-up . In this episode we covered a lot of topics related simplified living, early retirement, exploring passions, etc,

Here’s some of the topics we covered:

• Background and reasons to move back to India 

Manasa shares her story of going to the US for Masters and then working for 3 years before returning to India due to immigration reasons. She shares about how she is managing the long distance relationship with her spouse in the US and the reason to move to India. 

Shyam returned to India after spending 17 years in the US and has been living in India for 3 years.Shyam dives into several aspects of this transition (thought process, planning,  social life, career transition, starting his own company, etc. He also describes how he's been living in India for the last 3 years.