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I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village.

My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.

I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.

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.

I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.

I was born in our Chembur house in Mumbai, where we lived for five years after which we shifted to our Lokhandwala house.

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.