Ten Days That Made Me: The Longest Short Trip

In 1999, a young man from Odisha who had never left India stepped onto a plane for the first time. He carried an address book and instructions from a colleague to say hello to Tony Blair. What followed was ten days that would change everything - a sprint through Frankfurt Airport, a friend's friend who simply said just come to London, a snowflake landing on his hand in Leeds, and the quiet discovery that the world was navigable after all. Some journeys change where you are. Others change who you are. Twenty-five years later, he finally tells the story. Ten Days That Made Me is a memoir about first times, the kindness of strangers, and what happens when the boy who always stayed finally goes - and what he discovered about home only by leaving it by leaving it.