About the Book: A Return to Self Excursions in Exile
In 2019, the Government of India revoked Aatish Taseers citizenship, thereby
exiling him from the country where he grew up and lived for thirty years. This
loss, both practical and spiritual, sent him on a journey of revisiting the
places that formed his identity and, in the process, compelled him to ask
broader questions about the complex forces that make a culture and nationality.
In Istanbul, he confronts the hopes and ambitions of his former self. In
Uzbekistan, he sees how what was once the majestic portal of the Silk Road is
now a tourist