India, Dec. 4 -- While moving to a new country often requires shedding old habits for survival, one Indian woman living in the US argues that certain traits are essential anchors that actually make life better abroad. In an Instagram post, she explains five habits that she refuses to give up.

"People think moving to the US changes everything about you. but some Indian habits actually make your life better here and I refuse to let them go," the NRI Pragya Gupta wrote and shared a video.

She shared the five habits she still practises and also explained the reason behind them. The habits she mentioned include keeping her house shoe-free, keeping her Indian 'jugaad' mindset, saving more than she spends, regularly eating home-cooked food, an...