About the Book: Ways Of Being Desi
How do we define being Desi? We all know what we mean by it but what are the
actual sights, scents, sounds and tastes-the myriad elements from the South
Asian imagination that come together in various combinations to conjure self for
all of us? Because being Desi is no respecter of national boundaries; Desi
cultures are truly transnational and cannot be defined by the rupture of
Partition or lines on a map. Ziauddin Sardar is a Person of Pakistani Origin-and
proud of it-but he boldly says that his identities draw on antecedents from all
parts of the subcontinent. From the