A special 30th episode with my parents Jyotsna Lawania and Anil Lawania. We discuss growing up in the 1960s in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, leaving India, settling in Saudi Arabia, Oman & UAE and parenting two animals that everyone calls their sons.

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0:00 Introduction

1:04 Growing Up With Eight Siblings

5:30 Studying At IIT

10:18 Regret On Not Clearing Civil Services

16:28 Witnessing The 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots

19:38 The Indian Emergency

20:48 Leaving India

31:40 Mom’s Entry: Childhood In Agra, Uttar Pradesh

38:09 How Would Your Parents Describe You?

39:27 How Did You Both Meet?

45:48 Leaving India

49:07 On Becoming Parents

54:28 What Is The Naughtiest Thing Your Kids Have Done?

58:32 How Would You Rate Yourself As Parents?

1:03:10 Raising Children In A Foreign Country

1:04:50 Were We Good Sons?

1:06:52 Are We Good Brothers To Each Other?

1:08:25 Watching Your Children Leave Home

1:10:57 Happiest Memory

1:12:11 Advice For Your Sons

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