How I Became a Nuclear Refugee

Or how my parents met in India and then fled from Chernobyl

Image modified by the author. Based on a photo by Karsten Wuerth on Unsplash.

Do you see the bearded dude up there driving the van? That’s my dad. And the little kid in the back, suckling on a pacifier and poking his head out of a window? That’s me. The nuclear explosion in the back? That’s Chernobyl.