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\textit{Summary of the Paper}   Background and Hypothesis. --  The purpose of this paper presentation  is to write about describe a research process and initial results from a hypothesis generating study where  the excessive stress related diseases that are observed in authors have studied  the Indian diaspora settled in many different parts phenomenon  of the world. We shall also examine the health reversal of healthy migrant  effects reported for Indian migrants  in New Zealand. Healthy migrant effect refers to the phenomenon where migrants to  a survey of Indian professionals who work new country are usually healthier than their age- and gender-matched native counterparts. While this is true for migrants from other countries (e.g., China, South East Asia) for migrants from South Asia  in call centres throughout general and  India as these indicate a form in particular, much higher rates  of internal migration. cardiovascular illnesses and metabolic disorders are observed.  We hypothesise The authors hypothesised  that a persistent pattern of unrealised promise, both this phenomenon could be explained  in internal migration case of people  from villages or small towns the Indian subcontinent due  to larger cities, the stresses involved in the migration process itself  and within larger cities from one set of circumstances associated stress related variables and these in turn, possibly mediated  to another as well as unrealised dreams alter responses  and unfulfileed promises may underlie ended up in  the atypical health effects that seem to reverse manifestation of  the "healthy migrant effect" among Indian diaspora disease processes. Conventionally, it is believed  that settle possible operations of "thrifty genes" may explain why expatriate Indians settled  in alien cultural contexts may develop  different parts profiles  of the world, specifically reviewing evidence from New Zealand and evidence from a cross sectional survey in Bangalore. illnesses.  We hypothesise To examine this phenomenon, the authors analysed health data from two subgroups from the Indian population -- call centre operators and business process operator employees, and expatriate migrant Indians. The call centre operators were deemed to "internally" migrate to a different "time zone" and operated within the context of an "alien" culture  that there are similarities between could provide a cause of life stress, and data from expatriate migrants were deemed to "externally" migrate to a different time zone and operate within  the context of an "alien" culture that could also contribute to life stresses explaining the emergence of different  pattern of migration abroad illnesses observed. If the relative risks of stress related illnesses were higher for both groups relative to the "native" population (non-occupationally exposed groups  in specific countries case of Indian BPO employees  and job patterns resident population in case of expatriate Indians), this would provide evidence in support of "migratory stress" factors as possible causal variables  for middle to lower-middle class non-technically educated Indians (excluding Engineeers the pattern of illnesses observed among population of Indian origin.   The data were analysed  and doctors, triangulated from two sources: first, secondary analyses of data from Auckland District Health Board region of New Zealand was conducted,  and relative risks of hypertensive disorders, and diabetes were estimated for people from India compared with  other highly technical well placed jobs), immigrants  and Europeans; second, data from a preliminary call centre health survey (N = 150) on self reported health plus semi structured interviews were analysed to identify  the transmigration relative risks  of hypertension and diabetes among the age- and gender-matched  Indian labourers in population subgroups obtained from  the nineteenth centuries as described National Family Health Survey (NFHS-III) -- regional samples.   Preliminary Results. -- Preliminary analysis of esults suggest that for both subgroups (resident Indians who work  in BPOs and Call Centres) and migrant Indians,  the trilogy "Sea rates  of Poppies". Drawing on the story hypertension, diabetes, and life stress related illnesses were higher than their "native" counterparts. We attribute that this may be linked to their process  of "migration". In connection with this, we analyse  the migration detailed in the Sea of Poppies process  and current associated stress using the nineteenth-century Indian  migrationpatterns, we lead  to Mauritius based novel by Amitav Ghosh as a metaphor. The stresses associated with  the hypothesis of the consistent pattern of reversal migration process may lead to altered and unexpected health stats  ofhealthy migrant effect seen in  Indian settlers in developed countries. migrants compared with non-migrants.