An Indian writer living in the US for 30 years on the idea of home and belonging

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An Indian writer living in the US for 30 years on the idea of home and belonging

By Amitava Kumar • 02/02/2019 at 6:34AM

‘Airports, your honour, are the places where immigrants feel most at home. And also the most uneasy.’

If I seek a home, it is in language. I’m using language to map a place, says Amitava Kumar, a professor of English at Vassar College in upstate New York, USA and the author of The Lovers: A Novel, among others.

An Indian writer living in the US for 30 years on the idea of home and belonging

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