{"id":56987,"date":"2023-07-26T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/jul\/26\/a-moment-that-changed-me-i-travelled-to-india-and-discovered-what-really-defines-me"},"modified":"2023-07-26T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T06:00:10","slug":"a-moment-that-changed-me-i-travelled-to-india-and-discovered-what-really-defines-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56987","title":{"rendered":"A moment that changed me: I travelled to India \u2013 and discovered what really defines me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was adopted as a baby and was hoping to answer the question of where I\u2019m from. Instead, the trip reminded me of my deep love for my family<\/p>\n<p>Our three-week trip to India was coming to an end and I still hadn\u2019t found an answer to the question that had ostensibly prompted the trip. I decided to ask the woman who owned the Goa beach huts in which we were staying. \u201cDo you think I\u2019m Indian?\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d she replied. Oh well, never mind. At least that was out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>I was adopted when I was three months old. I was born in Bristol but have never had any real idea of my heritage, other than being south Asian. And I have never cared a hoot. Mum and Dad are my mum and dad, and my younger brother (my parents\u2019 biological son) is my brother. Who cares if I have slightly darker skin than the rest of the family?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/jul\/26\/a-moment-that-changed-me-i-travelled-to-india-and-discovered-what-really-defines-me\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was adopted as a baby and was hoping to answer the question of where I\u2019m from. Instead, the trip reminded me of my deep love for my familyOur three-week trip to India was coming to an end and I still hadn\u2019t found an answer to the question that had os&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1339,77,62,78,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-family","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56988,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56987\/revisions\/56988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}