belonging

Homeland Reveries

Aditya Mani Jha

Tibetan writer Tsering Yangzom Lama’s debut novel is an ode to desire

One Hundred Days of Solitude

Ira Mukhoty

The rootlessness of family can give you the world

‘Grief takes many shapes In the novel,’ says Jokha Alharthi

Nandini Nair

Omani author Jokha Alharthi’s new book chronicles a young woman’s attempts to understand home and belonging. The author in conversation with Open

Homecomings

Shaikh Ayaz

A group exhibition engages with the challenges of habitation and questions of belonging

Uneasy Home

Rohit Chakraborty

Being a refugee in the Northeast

The Foreigner’s Home

Toni Morrison

To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, country, gender? Religion, race? And if none of these matter, are we urbane, cosmopolitan, or simply lonely?

Homeward Bound

Rini Barman

Belonging and outsider-ness in books from the Northeast

Kamila Shamsie: The Migrant as a Metaphor

Nandini Nair

A new novel by Kamila Shamsie explores the process of belonging

Of Home and Belonging

Janice Pariat

For a while now, a clutch of Indian photographers has been grasping at the idea of ‘home’. What their gaze alights on is not even always a physical space