There's this existential crisis in America and in the West of, like - who am I? - based on this searching for individual fulfillment, which you don't necessarily have in the East in the same way because you're kind of told what to do. I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm just saying that's just, like, the reality.

My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? - like, for a better life to find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always - he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that's where I grew up.

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

I don't want to tell people what they should think.

Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.

So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.

From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.