India: Faces and Places

By Salima Bhanji

It’s always that way. When you hope to impact something, it always impacts you more. And although I know my trip had a big impact on me, I can’t exactly figure out what that impact was specifically. Most people tell you that a journey, such as mine, changes a person. But I can recall my mum telling me before I left, “Don’t expect to come back a different person or anything.”

Going to India, I thought, would open up to me what the other side looked like. And in witnessing the conditions in which others live and challenging my own emotional strength, I also felt that perhaps I could try and impact the lives of others. At the same time, finally I would get to see into the country which had determined so many of the peculiarities in the way I live.

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