Expats in India turn to therapy to deal with culture shock

Dhyan Summers counsels new arrivals in India and helps them with their culture shock.Courtesy Amrit Dhillon

More and more expatriates in India are turning to counselling services for help in dealing with their move and the dissonances that inevitably follow.

Most Indians hoot at the notion of expatriates suffering in their “hardship” posting – the mansion in a swanky part of New Delhi, all those zeroes on the pay cheque, the limousine with a liveried chauffeur and a huge retinue of servants scurrying after them, when all they had back home, if they were lucky, was a fortnightly cleaner.

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