Ooh, that's a good set of questions. I was born here in Liverpool, but I think I went to India for the first time fairly soon after, before I was two. The first time I can remember, I was almost four. Back then we used to go once every two years, barring weddings and special occasions that we had to go for, and in the last five years or so it's been every year. I think partly it's because I'm older, and partly because my family are much more financially stable than when I was small, and can afford the flights more easily.

Because of the way Indian society works, I've spent a lot of time with my father's family in New Delhi. My maternal grandfather died in 1979, and the family he left behind live in Assam, which is remote and impossible to get to. But my great-uncle, who brought my mother up, lives in Chittaranjan Park in South Delhi, and so I've spent a lot of time with him too. I guess it has worked out equally, taken over time.