About the Book: The Ramgarh Literary Festival
Rare must be the person who knows all about himself. In The Stranger in My
Home, former US diplomat Manish Nandy offers a collection of personal stories
through an extraordinary travelogue. He looks back at the unusual people he has
met over the decades and explores how they have shaped him. The mother he took
care of in her old age; the couple he helped adopt a girl in a foreign land by
challenging the norms; the women he loved but could not be with; the man who
befriended him only to shatter his illusions; the Arab whose