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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Book Review: 'Homebound' Makes Sure We Don't Forget the 2020 Migrant Crisis -Sonia Ghalian

Book Review: 'Homebound' Makes Sure We Don't Forget the 2020 Migrant Crisis -Sonia Ghalian

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published Published on Jan 25, 2022   modified Modified on Feb 9, 2022

-TheWire.in

Puja Changoiwala’s new novel begins with the announcement of the COVID-19 lockdown. It then makes real a 900-km journey by a migrant family from Mumbai to Balhaar, Rajasthan.

The idea of home is a fundamental human concept. We’re not taught about it at school, nor is there a pedagogy of ‘being at home,’ nevertheless, all of us have a sense of belonging that we associate with the word.

Even those hunter-gatherers and other indigenous groups we refer to as Adivasis have had this idea of home although it’s not restricted to a fixed physical location.

A home may not always be a positive place that exhibits warmth, comfort, and a frictionless environment. But the word home does bring to mind an innate sense of belonging, of belonging to a place and among a people. A place that one returns to when all options of life and survival close in on you.

This idea of home, of belonging, is what Puja Changoiwala’s new novel Homebound explores when it recounts the unprecedented mass reverse migration that the pandemic has brought along.

As the biggest national lockdown to date brought unforeseen changes to the Indian polity, it also set into motion, migration on a scale the nation has not experienced since the partition in 1947.

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TheWire.in, 25 January, 2022, https://thewire.in/books/homebound-puja-changoiwala-book-review


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