Why 'India Outside India'?

Since I came to US I have been trying to capture for the benefit of my international friends what is ‘India’ or ‘Indianness’. It is not an easy task, that everybody will agree. We have time and again discussed various facets of Indian people, culture, ways of meaning making and what it means to live as an Indian. It was also interesting when my international friends shared what they thought being Indian was/must be like for me.

I have been capturing visuals (mostly in form of photos) that I thought express non-Indians’ perceptions about India and also the expressions/visuals shared by the Indian community in US that must be shaping this perception. After a year of gathering images and talking in my head about it I thought why not put it all down in a blog.