Almost home : finding a place in the world from Kashmir to New York by Hariharan, Githa, 1954- author instant download

Almost home : finding a place in the world from Kashmir to New York by Hariharan, Githa, 1954- author instant download

302 pages ; 21 cm, What does a medieval city in South India have in common with Washington D.C.? How do people in Kashmir imagine the freedom they long for? To whom does Delhi, city of grand monuments and hidden slums, actually belong? And what makes a city, or any place, home? In ten intricately carved essays, renowned author Githa Hariharan tackles these questions and takes readers on an eye-opening journey across time and place, exploring the history, landscape, and people that have shaped the world's most fascinating and fraught cities. Inspired by Italo Calvino's playful and powerful writing about journeys and cities, Harihan combines memory, cultural criticism, and history to sculpt fascinating, layered stories about the places around the world--from Delhi, Mumbai, and Kashmir to Palestine, Algeria, and eleventh century Córdoba, from Tokyo to New York and Washington. In narrating the lives of these place's vanquished and marginalized, she plumbs the depths of colonization and nation-building, poverty and war, the fight for human rights and the day-to-day business of survival, Originally published: New Delhi : Fourth Estate, 2014, Includes bibliographical references, Seven cities and anycity -- Two cities of victory -- Toda café blues -- Mapping freedom -- Speaking in haiku -- Trailblazing in Andalusia -- Looking for a nation, looking at the nation -- Bittersweet Danish -- Seeing Palestine -- Almost home