An Indian in Scandinavia

 While I hardly got used to the culture of Europe, even with my 2 years stay in London, living in a locality with majority population from India. Copenhagen came as completely opposite experience. My first week in Copenhagen, with two children in a beutiful apartment in the heart of Frederiksberg, was more of a "is this really happening" experience. I remember, it was late evening on the day we arrived to Copenhagen. We carried with us pre-packaged food from London, just picked up from a local take away, which was to be our dinner on arrival. I also carried lots of baby stuff and some basic groceries to last me a couple of days to allow me for making my way around.  A had already been to Copenhagen for an interview and by what he had explained to me then, my impression was of a very small town, with very little population and hardly any Asians. When we arrived in 2008, it was true that there were very few Indians as compared to today. However, there were many families, whom w...

     So I moved to Denmark in 2008, November. The same year, in January V was born in London. Little had I known then that my time in London would soon come to an end and I would move even north with two little children in tow. Even 12 years later, I still cannot seem to like the cold, dark and windy days of November in Scandinavia. Maybe it has something to do with the anxiety of Nov, 2008. We moved into a transit apartment in the heart of Frederiksberg.   Coming from London to Copenhagen was not as big a shock as it would have been if I had directly flown in here.  Well, Kingsbury, where we lived in London was more Indian then western in many respects. So the change from India was not as dramatic. Indian eateries were aplenty and vegetables, groceries and even sweets from the subcontinent were easy to find.  This blog is a collection of snippets from my life in the last 12 years being an Indian in Denmark. The saga of trying to keep the desi genes sa...