Cynthia Gyuru, an award-winning actress of Bollywood, is a member of the Bollywood occupational caste. The Nationality of Gyuru comes from the Sanskrit word: “Gya-ru” which means nationality or citizenship. However, according to Gyuru, her Nationality is neither Indian nor British. This actress is the fourth member of a family of three, who hail from Hyderabad in India. She was born in Deccan Gymkhana, a suburb located in the southern part of the city of Mumbai, and grew up there with her two sisters and one brother.
Cynthia Gyuru is an athlete by profession and has won a number of awards for this field. However, her most notable accomplishments in her film career have been as an actress, and not as an athlete, although she claims to have been good at all three. She grew up as a fan of Indian cinema and even considered studying film language in college in Delhi, but chose instead to pursue an education in journalism because it interested her.
Gyuru’s Nationality is thus neither Indian nor British, although she considers herself to be a “national” woman because she has loved and supported the Indian Diaspora wherever she lived in the world, even during the period of partition. In fact, her book India Second Class Citizen (published in 2021) portrays her upbringing and her experience of being a dispossessed national, while living in what was then the British protectorate of India, Jersey. This is an experience that many of us can only dimly relate, and it is interesting to learn that even in her writing we learn something about the nature of citizenship in the new millennium. Whether Gyuru chooses to see herself as both an Indian and a British national, is a question open to debate.