Listen to this when
Yeh Jo Des Hai Tera
When home keeps calling you back 🇮🇳
Who it's for
From the film Swades, it's a call to an expatriate pulled between his life abroad and the country he came from.
Torn between places→Reconnected to home
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Yeh Jo Des Hai Tera" is a song from the 2004 Hindi film Swades, directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, with music composed and sung by A. R. Rahman and lyrics by Javed Akhtar. The film follows Mohan Bhargav, an Indian NASA project manager in the US, who visits a village in India and becomes involved in its development.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Age: All ages
One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings;W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 1
