BENGALURU: A LinkedIn post by Meta engineering leader Balaji Gururajan about returning to India after spending 18 years in the United States has resonated with thousands online.Sharing a photograph of an airport trolley piled high with luggage, Gururajan wrote that he and his family had recently moved to Bengaluru after nearly two decades in the US.In his LinkedIn post, he wrote, “A month ago, my family and I packed up 18 years in the US and moved to Bangalore — closer to aging parents, growing kids, and a stretch of family life we didn’t want to keep watching from a distance.”Gururajan is an engineering leader at Meta and has previously worked at LinkedIn and Microsoft.He said leaving the San Francisco Bay Area was an emotional decision after building both his career and personal life there.“It still doesn’t feel entirely real. The Bay gave me my career, my closest friendships, and a way of thinking about technology and leadership I will carry for the rest of my working life,” he wrote.He also thanked colleagues, mentors and friends who had supported him over the years, adding that his gratitude was “more than a LinkedIn post can really carry.”Gururajan described the process of settling back into Bengaluru as “its own kind of project”, from finding a home and schools to adjusting to everyday life in a city he said he had last known as “a much younger person.”“It’s been humbling and, more often than not, genuinely good,” he wrote.Many people shared similar experiences of moving back to India after years abroad. Others welcomed him back, while several said spending time with ageing parents and raising children closer to extended family were among the strongest reasons for returning home.
