Where this was said
Home, But Starting at Zero
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When Shoaib's plane touched down in Kampala, there was no one waiting for him. He hadn't told his family he was coming — too ashamed to face them with nothing to show for a year abroad. His savings were gone, his cow and motorbike sold, his dreams deferred. He described himself to Shibani Mahtani, through a crackling phone line, as bankrupt — 'on zero.' But even in that stripped-down state, he refused to frame it as defeat. His dreams hadn't changed, he said. They were just delayed. And he had to keep going, because he had to survive — because he had to become something good. It is a quiet, determined grace note at the end of a year that took almost everything from him.
