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More and more people of Indian origin are moving 'back' to the country their parents left decades ago, for the growing business opportunities and to make cultural connections.
Since 2005, 1.1 million people have taken advantage of a scheme which offers a lifelong visa to the children and grandchildren of people born in India, as well as former Indian nationals
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With India's economy growing faster than most in the West, is now the time to head East? What are the realities of making such a move?
Readers have been sending us their comments and sharing their experiences.

I studied in the US, and stayed eight more years. But I wanted to return to India. There were issues there - social, environmental, political - that I cared about. I also wanted to be closer to my parents as they got older. I've never regretted moving back in 1992. It's not that I disliked the US; on the contrary, I've always felt at home there. And India is frustrating and perverse in so many ways. Yet it's almost because of that frustration that I find this the world's most fascinating country. Dilip D'Souza, Mumbai
Earlier this year I quit my job as a policy adviser in the US Senate and moved to India. I grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. My parents were very traditional, so I had a dual upbringing - Bengali culture at home, American outside. We first visited India when I was 10, and I loved it. When I came to live here, to my parents it was still the India of 25 years ago. They didn't like me being far from home, and they feared for my safety. But I'm enjoying it and I want to be a part of this growing economy. Bidisha Bhattacharya, Bangalore
I am Indian by ethnicity, but I had only been there once, at the age of 12. I hated the place. When my firm opened a Mumbai office, they asked me set it up - I thought I'd stay no more than a year. Three days after I landed in November 2008, the hotel I was staying in was attacked by terrorists. But I stayed and fell in love with the country. Four years later, I'm still here and we now have three offices in India. Now that my wife Priya has also moved here from Canada, I think we are staying for good. Anuj Ranjan, Mumbai