Salim Reshamwala

Actually not, because the world for you was this bounds, that little valley that was a world enough in itself.

You had just one shop, you could not spend 20 pence and life was good, man.

So that idea of like something existing out there, I mean, in hindsight, Brazil played a part for me and my own awareness of the world existing beyond that little valley that I grew up in.

I felt a lot of other things.

Isolation wasn't one of them.

I love that distinction that when you have your whole world around you, you can't feel isolated.

You have the whole world.

Exactly.

How's that change a place?

From feeling like you have the whole world in your little village to actually being connected to the outside world?

It feels like a different place.

And that's very reflective of how Debal's changed in my lifetime.

I'm in mid-30s.

I've seen this place change absolutely in every sense of the word, economically, politically, in terms of the connectivity of the people.

That coincides with all these, like, roots.

One example that I can think of in terms of how my village had changed, and it continues to change at a mind-bubbling rate.

Every time I go home, like, one year after, two years after, right?

Now, the people would make their own, like, sort of local millet brews or local alcohol.

But now, like, people are, like, all these bottled beers and bottled liquors.

You know, that's all with the bridges and the roads connecting people.