I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
My grandfather is from Peshawar; he was born there.
I take full pride in the fact that I'm from Chandigarh.
When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.
My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.
I was born in our Chembur house in Mumbai, where we lived for five years after which we shifted to our Lokhandwala house.
I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.
I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.
Though I stay in Delhi, I often think about Himachal.