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About the Book: Almost Home: Cities and Other Places
In large parts of the world, including India, the prevailing view of people and
places-and their multiple voices-has been a western version. How does this story
change when it is located in India, and the view complicated by several
cultures, languages, traditions and political debates?
From Delhi, Bombay/Mumbai, Ooty and Kashmir, to Palestine, Algeria and
eleventh-century Cordoba, these intricately carved essays explore cities and
other places through the lives of people, and how they see home and belonging.
Combining memoir and polemic, historical and imagined narrative, anecdote and
poetry, Githa Hariharan recounts defining moments-in which people experience the
frictions of
About the Book: Almost Home: Cities and Other Places
In large parts of the world, including India, the prevailing view of people and
places-and their multiple voices-has been a western version. How does this story
change when it is located in India, and the view complicated by several
cultures, languages, traditions and political debates?
From Delhi, Bombay/Mumbai, Ooty and Kashmir, to Palestine, Algeria and
eleventh-century Cordoba, these intricately carved essays explore cities and
other places through the lives of people, and how they see home and belonging.
Combining memoir and polemic, historical and imagined narrative, anecdote and
poetry, Githa Hariharan recounts defining moments-in which people experience the
frictions of