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Name: Standing beside the statue of Adam Mickiewicz in Vilnius, I found myself thinking about what it mean
Uploaded: 2026-07-11T17:18:16.331Z
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Description: Standing beside the statue of Adam Mickiewicz in Vilnius, I found myself thinking about what it means to belong to more than one place. Mickiewicz is claimed by both Poland and Lithuania — a poet so

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Standing beside the statue of Adam Mickiewicz in Vilnius, I found myself thinking about what it means to belong to more than one place. Mickiewicz is claimed by both Poland and Lithuania — a poet so significant that two nations call him their own. He was born in Lithuania, wrote in Polish, and opened his most famous work with the words "Lithuania, my fatherland." He never saw that as a contradiction. Neither do I. Born in India, rooted in America, I've spent my life moving between worlds — between countries, between medicine and art, between science and soul. Some of the richest creative voices have never fit neatly into one box, one language, one identity. Maybe the truest parts of who we are don't belong to a single place at all. They belong to everywhere we've loved being.

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