Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the instagram-feed domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114 Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the jetpack domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/2/e/b/moonovermumbai.com/httpd.www/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 {"id":2346,"date":"2020-01-20T03:51:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T02:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2020-01-20T03:51:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T02:51:24","slug":"roots-mumbai-diaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots | Mumbai Diaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Roots. What a peculiar thing that can affect us so much when we least expect them to. I thought I had worked through a lot of my inner struggles with roots and identity by this age but I was so wrong. Why do I keep coming back to this country, why can\u2019t I let it go? My father left India almost 50 years ago and I as an adult keep coming back as if something is pulling me here. Is there a stronger energy at play here that wants me coming back? What is the purpose of me feeling this way?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two days left of my trip and the emotions are already building up, that I am going back and leaving this behind. Once again, just like any other year, I am travelling back to Sweden. My home. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I am very grateful for my life in Sweden and that\u2019s all I have ever known to be my home. But I have never felt that I fully belong there, there\u2019s just that big chunk of both my heart and soul never able to belong to Sweden and it is always left behind in India. I come back to try to find my pieces every year to try to feel whole. I have also started to accept that it might be difficult for anything to ever fill that void of never belonging anywhere. The trick is to find ways to cope with this empty feeling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I land in Sweden and travel back to my apartment on the smooth empty highways, it\u2019s always a bittersweet feeling. I feel emotional over the fact that I have left something behind but at the same time I am embracing what is so familiar to me. The life in Sweden. What gets to me each time, is that I notice that my clothes smell like India and the scent of Sweden is so different. The air is much lighter. There are no noises from traffic, no unnecessary honking going on. One would think that it\u2019s something you\u2019d never miss about India, but it\u2019s exactly these things that make India come alive. It\u2019s never sleeping and you learn to be mindful and unbothered by the scents, the noise, the crowd and everything that happens at once. Once you get mindful and one with it all, it creates this feeling of presence and bliss that we have all heard people mesmerised with India talk about. The hippies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even right now when I am typing this, I am sitting in my bedroom in our shared flat and the windows are closed. But you can hear everything from the streets four floors down in the middle of the city centre of Colaba, Mumbai. During a few wee hours in the night it goes quiet before the city wakes up to the organised chaos. I am not someone who easily get attached to places, I like to keep my memories of people and places normally and that is what I bring with me everywhere I go. But there has always been something with Mumbai that has pulled me in. I believe it\u2019s the contrast between the rest of India that I\u2019ve seen (which is not much compared to how much is left to see) and the India that exists in Mumbai. There\u2019s a vibe in this town that is hard to match elsewhere. Perhaps I am a romantic Pisces that only likes to focus on these pink cloudy thoughts whenever I describe this town, but I am positive that I am not the only one who thinks this way. Obviously it\u2019s not the jammed traffic, the high air pollution and crowded areas that make you love this city. It\u2019s what language it speaks to you when you listen carefully with your ears and your heart. What is the soul of this place? Does it connect with you? Why?
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roots. What a peculiar thing that can affect us so much when we least expect them to. I thought I had worked through a lot of my inner struggles with roots and identity by this age but I was so wrong. Why do I keep coming back to this country, why can\u2019t I let it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,10,12,13],"tags":[31,107,112,284,149,286,219,224,227],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","category-personal","category-thoughts","category-travel","tag-bittersweet","tag-home","tag-identity","tag-multicultural","tag-mumbai","tag-soul","tag-sweden","tag-thoughts","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nRoots | Mumbai Diaries - Moon Over Mumbai<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Roots | Mumbai Diaries - Moon Over Mumbai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Roots. What a peculiar thing that can affect us so much when we least expect them to. I thought I had worked through a lot of my inner struggles with roots and identity by this age but I was so wrong. Why do I keep coming back to this country, why can\u2019t I let it...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Moon Over Mumbai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-20T02:51:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-20T02:51:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"kimmimadeline\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@kimmimadeline\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@kimmimadeline\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"kimmimadeline\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/\",\"name\":\"Roots | Mumbai Diaries - Moon Over Mumbai\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-20T02:51:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-20T02:51:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/#\/schema\/person\/bae1c87970d17b0a58208ee71f6b04a3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Roots | Mumbai Diaries\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/\",\"name\":\"Moon Over Mumbai\",\"description\":\"| Kimmi Sandhu's Blog\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/#\/schema\/person\/bae1c87970d17b0a58208ee71f6b04a3\",\"name\":\"kimmimadeline\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9f3808e4a8394dffc61b5d3f4d8d3da?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9f3808e4a8394dffc61b5d3f4d8d3da?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"kimmimadeline\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Roots | Mumbai Diaries - Moon Over Mumbai","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Roots | Mumbai Diaries - Moon Over Mumbai","og_description":"Roots. What a peculiar thing that can affect us so much when we least expect them to. I thought I had worked through a lot of my inner struggles with roots and identity by this age but I was so wrong. Why do I keep coming back to this country, why can\u2019t I let it...","og_url":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/","og_site_name":"Moon Over Mumbai","article_published_time":"2020-01-20T02:51:18+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-20T02:51:24+00:00","author":"kimmimadeline","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@kimmimadeline","twitter_site":"@kimmimadeline","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"kimmimadeline","Estimated reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/","url":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/","name":"Roots | Mumbai Diaries - Moon Over Mumbai","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-01-20T02:51:18+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-20T02:51:24+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/#\/schema\/person\/bae1c87970d17b0a58208ee71f6b04a3"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/2020\/01\/20\/roots-mumbai-diaries\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Roots | Mumbai Diaries"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/","name":"Moon Over Mumbai","description":"| Kimmi Sandhu's Blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/#\/schema\/person\/bae1c87970d17b0a58208ee71f6b04a3","name":"kimmimadeline","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9f3808e4a8394dffc61b5d3f4d8d3da?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9f3808e4a8394dffc61b5d3f4d8d3da?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"kimmimadeline"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTFqB-BQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonovermumbai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}