Returning to India

Excerpts from interviews conducted by Washington Post staff writer S. Mitra Kalita in reporting the story, "A Reversal of the Tide in India."

Software company executive Dutt Kalluri left India for Maryland in 1997, but seeing the changes in India on return trips drew him back to his homeland in 2001.

Uma Kalluri moved from Maryland back to India with her husband in 2001, which was a cultural shock for their young daughter.

Lakshmi Kalluri, 9, found that her parents' move back to India in 2001 was a strange odyssey.

Bala J. Raman, co-founder and president of Congruent Solutions, discusses how the American work culture can help India.

Nazneen Modak, the wife of a GE executive, was born and raised in Bombay (Mumbai), lived in the United States, then returned to India in 2000.

Modak discovered that back in India, she was able to afford domestic servants.

For Modak's husband, the move was a return to the land where he grew up in poverty (Clip 1 | Clip 2).

Modak recalls how relatives visiting from the West encountered Indian toilets for the first time.

-- Produced by Alexandra Garcia