Who Cares For An Aging PIO?
Raj S Rangarajan You have no doubt heard of the Indian businessman or professional who has made it big in America, with his stable of swanky Mercedes cars in his multi-car garage in sprawling suburbia, whether in Princeton, New Jersey, Hempstead, New York or Sunnyvale, California. With the Internet revolution spawning so many young Indian millionaires, you would have also heard that the Non-Resident Indian, now renamed Person of Indian Origin has earned widespread recognition among his peers at work, among his friends in the Indian community as also among his American neighbors. You would have also heard that many PIOs invite their older parents to stay back in the United States to partake of the “American dream.” But how often have you heard stories percolating down the Indian community and the extended south Asian community, where old parents, who chose to emigrate to stay close to their children and grandchildren, feel forsaken, bereft of company and deprived of friendly chatter the
