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It’s Been Bittersweet: Three Indian Women On 50 Years In The UK
When my mother and aunts moved from West Bengal to west London, it wasn’t just the weather that made them realise this wasn’t the place of their dreams.
Fifty years ago, in December 1968, two young women got off a plane that had flown from India and landed at Heathrow. They wore their best outfits: hand-embroidered silk saris, Bollywood-style beehives, bright pink lipstick – looking like minor film stars. They were, after all, travelling to England, a place of dreams, a mythical country of prestige and opportunity.