In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
(n.) The act of migrating.
I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.
When this flood blocks the road I am worried more by my soil getting washed, than by getting late to reach my destination.
Modern life is a centrifuge; it throws people in every direction.
paradise seemed further away than India, but Hell had become a bit closer
Charles Martel’s victory at the Battle of Tours in 732 is recognised for having prevented the spread of Islam throughout Europe.
You can leave your place you are sitting at without leaving that place either by playing music or by listening to music! Music is a migration to the unknown!
When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.
All sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out i...
But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you embark, you'll never truly be at home again. What you've left behind exists only in memor...
The fury of those nativists advocating wholesale slaughter was what struck Nadia most, and it struck her because it seemed so familiar, so much like the fury of the militants in her own city. She wond...
Mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves, severed mother tongues, violated privacies, untr...
Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the...
The news in those days was full of war and migrants and nativists, and it was full of fracturing too, of regions pulling away from nations, and cities pulling away from hinterlands, and it seemed that...