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Dehyping Western lifestyles: Bridging gap between expectation and reality

India would be failing in its duty to its future migrants if it does not do anything to de-market unrealistic aspirations and impossible dreams

migrants, illegal immigrants
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Illustration: Binay Sinha

R Jagannathan Mumbai

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Aspirational dreams are strange things. They make humans attempt difficult— even impossible and undesirable—things, when the goal may be a gross distortion of reality, a mirage. As Donald Trump begins deporting illegal Indian immigrants in military aircraft in handcuffs and chains, some dreams would have turned to dust, though one cannot be sure. Some of the deportees are being sent back for a second time, and many of those returning may have sold their land and borrowed large sums of money to take illegal routes to “Umrika” and “Kanneda”. They have debts to repay, and the only way they may
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