One Life Two Continents Two Cultures

The author, having been separated from his father who was an economic migrant from India shares his life experiences of settling in the UK at the age of twelve years. He shares his personal experiences, emotions, discrimination and coping with a dual culture in a Western society in the 1960s and onward. The difficulties he encountered from his parents and the community when he changed his faith, beliefs and values from that of his parents and his arranged engagement to a young lady that he never met. He married into a western culture against the wishes of his parents.