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Refugee is a memorial to those who died in the struggle that resulted in the break-up of Pakistan. It is a tribute to those who suffered and survived and an inspiration for everyone. It is a story about war and history, but above all, it is a story about people a human story. The book is subtitled Unsettled as I Roam: My Endless Search for a Home because it is an account of author Azmat Ashraf’s life, punctuated by a total of six migrations. He begins with the last, when he is on his way to Canada with his wife and three daughters and, although he says, “Unlike in the past, this migration of 2002 is planned, and I am in control of events”, he is still unsure: “Human nature doesn’t change, and in the post-9/11 world, people from my part of the world may have to face new and unknown challenges even in Canada.” ....
Reading recommendations from a pandemic year Poets and politicians, sportsmen and theatre personalities look back at 2020 through the books they read Updated: December 20, 2020 12:12:44 pm Here are the books authors read this year. (Source: Getty Images) Aruni Kashyap writer I think everyone in India should read Samit Basu’s Chosen Spirits (2020, Simon and Schuster) it is an urgent and topical book set in an India of the future, a work of speculative fiction. I don’t read a lot in this genre, but I think speculative fiction has the ability to caution us. I have long admired Moroccan-American writer Laila Lalami’s fiction but Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America (2020, Pantheon) is my first introduction to her nonfiction writing. Through a set of essays, Lalami talks about what it means to be a Muslim-American citizen, a naturalised American citizen; and how acceptance by the establishment comes ....