The Second Homeland documents the passage of the Polish refugees arriving in
India from the USSR in 1942. They were not the Polish Jews escaping Nazi Germany
but the composite Polish population from eastern Poland who were deported by the
USSR to slave labor camps. The memoirs of a Polish orphan's hair-raising journey
to India and his experience during the stay, is narrated in the first person.
The book includes the historical perspective culled out from archival documents
in India, the UK and Poland. A unique mix of a diary and historical viewpoint
placed adjacently with a compilation of personal photographs, the author
beautifully brings out a