Vikrant
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- Apr 20, 2013
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A very touching story of a Syrian refugee.
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A few kilometres away from its DDA houses and across the subzi-mandi in South Delhiās Sarita Vihar, a narrow lane lined with āForex money exchangeā shops and vendors selling āgreen olivesā leads to a four-storey guest house. The 32-year-old can be often found on its terrace. Here, for the past four years, an āundergroundā Syrian restaurant has been turning out dishes from back home ā syrup-soaked baklavas, pita bread and fresh hummus.
The 32-year-old first came to India from Homs, a city in western Syria, in 2011, when he enrolled for a Masters in English Literature at Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi.
He is back here as a refugee ā one among the six million Syrians on the run from civil war and Islamic State-unleashed violence. Homs was at the centre of that violence, declared by the rebels as their capital before they were chased out.
In 2013, the 32-year-old and his family ā father an engineer, mother an Arabic teacher, and his three siblings ā first left for Turkey as āwe didnāt feel safeā. āWe felt unsettled in Turkey and so decided to move to Europe, like the others,ā he says. But when the rest of his family left for Sweden, he came to India ā a country where he felt more āacceptedā.
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My family went to Sweden, I chose India where I felt more accepted: A Syrian refugee
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A few kilometres away from its DDA houses and across the subzi-mandi in South Delhiās Sarita Vihar, a narrow lane lined with āForex money exchangeā shops and vendors selling āgreen olivesā leads to a four-storey guest house. The 32-year-old can be often found on its terrace. Here, for the past four years, an āundergroundā Syrian restaurant has been turning out dishes from back home ā syrup-soaked baklavas, pita bread and fresh hummus.
The 32-year-old first came to India from Homs, a city in western Syria, in 2011, when he enrolled for a Masters in English Literature at Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi.
He is back here as a refugee ā one among the six million Syrians on the run from civil war and Islamic State-unleashed violence. Homs was at the centre of that violence, declared by the rebels as their capital before they were chased out.
In 2013, the 32-year-old and his family ā father an engineer, mother an Arabic teacher, and his three siblings ā first left for Turkey as āwe didnāt feel safeā. āWe felt unsettled in Turkey and so decided to move to Europe, like the others,ā he says. But when the rest of his family left for Sweden, he came to India ā a country where he felt more āacceptedā.
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My family went to Sweden, I chose India where I felt more accepted: A Syrian refugee