American Bapu: India Through My Eyes

in 2014 My wife and I helped a young Bengali woman from India who was visiting the US for the first time when 15 000 travelers were stranded at the Dallas airport. We remained friends and grew close keeping in touch online. In 2015 she asked that we come to India to be in her wedding party as her American parents. It was an incredible way to experience India for the first time!At the request of a few Indian friends from an online Forum I wrote a short travelogue about that first experience in India. More than 100 000 Indians read what I wrote! Some were young people who became close online friends. Some wrote me with personal issues. They began calling me baapu Baba angel paa touch Papa Rick and dad. I called them the sons and daughters of My heart.In 2017 We returned to India and stayed with the families of some of them in five different cities. This book tells that story..