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From India with Love
From India with Love: Growing up Australian and the journey of self-discovery that led me back to my Indian roots | Latika Bourke
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Latika Bourke was adopted from India, aged eight months. Growing up in Bathurst, New South Wales she felt a deep connection to her Australian home and her Australian family. It wasn't until she heard her name uttered in the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire that Latika recognised she knew nothing of her Indian roots, the world she was born into and what she could have become had she not been brought to Australia as a baby. As Latika carved out a successful career for herself as an award-winning political journalist, she became more and more curious about her heritage and what it meant to be born in India and raised in Australia. And so began a deeply personal and sometimes confronting journey back to her birthplace to unravel the mysteries of her heritage. From India with Love is a beautiful story of finding your place in the world and finding peace with the path that led you there.
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Finished this book on my flight to HK. I was expecting more depth but what came across for a good qtr of the book was the author‘s detest for anything India, discreet “boasting” of her brainy genes etc. The depiction of her visit to India was refreshing but didn‘t leave an lasting impression of someone finding her roots. Maybe I‘m being tough or just maybe, it was really just a story from a first person‘s narrative on finding her - roots.

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“......the things that wowed were often the unexpected and unplanned experiences.”

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Ran out of chai tea so going with my coveted Kusma Tea‘s English breakfast tea, added in a good dollop of coconut milk and ta-dah...perfect post brunch drink. Starting on a new read in between getting some work emails cleared on a glorious Sunday! Happy Easter Sunday!

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