The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab - Marina Wheeler (Boris Johnson's ex wife)

[dallysingh101]

The question was a pressing one, more insistent as the years passed and my mother grew older and frailer. She was Indian and my late father, English, but what was I?

Each time someone asked where I was from, thinking I looked ‘foreign’ because of my olive skin and dark hair, it niggled. It never offended me, I just wasn’t sure what to say.

 

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[ChardikalaUK]

11 hours ago, dallysingh101 said:

The question was a pressing one, more insistent as the years passed and my mother grew older and frailer. She was Indian and my late father, English, but what was I?

Each time someone asked where I was from, thinking I looked ‘foreign’ because of my olive skin and dark hair, it niggled. It never offended me, I just wasn’t sure what to say.

 

dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8951353/My-mothers-passion-courage-woman-MARINA-WHEELER.html

The classic 'but where are you really from?'

[Kaurr]

On 11/16/2020 at 4:42 AM, puzzled said:

Is he like pointing to his bindi to tell people how hindu he is?

[Ranjeet01]

3 hours ago, Kaurr said:

Is he like pointing to his bindi to tell people how hindu he is?

He is threatening to press the red button. Follow his command or everything goes "boom!"