Category: Param Bhandare

Place Sense (Part 2) — Param Bhandare

Continuing from where I left off in Part 1 of this post: Growing up, I don’t think I was subject to the same forces as those born and raised in the U.S. My upbringing instilled in me a very third-person point-of-view character compared to what around me looked like people living their lives as first …

Place Sense (Part 1) — Param Bhandare

I am what is called a third culture kid of sorts, who are by wikipedia’s definition, people raised in a culture other than their parents’ or the culture of their country or nationality, and also living in a different environment during a significant part of their childhood development years. Specifically in my case, I’ve always …