This is the Moth Radio Hour.

I'm your host, Jay Allison.

This is an hour of stories about life after death. And if you don't mind,

I'll start with a quote from Keanu Reeves, who, when asked by Stephen Colbert, what he thinks

happens after we die, said, I know the ones who love us will miss us. In this show, a bunch

more answers to that question from a doctor, a Renaissance

fair grave digger, and of course, the loved ones we leave behind. We start with Ponderanga Rao,

who told this at an open mic story slam in Ann Arbor, where we partner with Michigan Public. Here's Panduranga,

live from the Moth. Hello, I'm Pandu. I'm a doctor. You might have guessed that because I'm Indian.

But it's particularly relevant to you. because I'm Indian.

But it's particularly relevant to, you know, what I'm going to say about belonging.

I finished medical school in 1986.

And like a lot of my classmates, although I graduated and here I was an official doctor, I still felt like an imposter.

I still felt that, no, am I really a doctor?

Do I really deserve to be a doctor?

But you know, I didn't have the courage to actually face that.

So I had to go looking for a job. And I lived in a place called Midrars, and the job

interview was in New Delhi, 1,500 miles away. So I took a train. So being a newly minted doctor,

obviously I could travel only by third class in the Indian railways, which is what I took,

sitting among all of the ordinary folks, and it was time for lunch and everybody ignored you.

They all took out the lunch boxes and started to eat.

And here I was sitting all alone feeling sorry for myself. One of the things that

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