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Transit Maps

Amruta Patil

Vignettes of moveable roots

Why We Leave Home

The story of a small Himalayan town in the Northeast

‘To a young man, every city looks like Paris’

Lucknow reflects in my work, the way I talk, the way I walk and the way I live my life.

A Matter of Belonging

Is home the place you were born or the place you have the most vibrant and long-lasting memories of?

‘Home and roots are synonymous with comfort and identity’

Originally, I am not from Kolkata. I came from the suburbs, and ended up forming a strong relationship with the city.

‘Most urban people don’t know where they belong’

Though I was born in Belwa, a small village in Bihar near the Indo-Nepal border, I was packed off to a boarding school in Bettiah after class four.

City of Perpetual Wait

The generation that grew up in Patna’s years of anarchy understood the wisdom of waiting and it has remained with them

What Might Have Been Home

…and how returning to it was, after all, just another journey

‘My Name is Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan’

The actor traces his roots in conversation with Open

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