A Migrant’s Ordinarily Extraordinary Story: Christopher Raja’s Into The Suburbs
Christopher Raja’s memoir Into the Suburbs: A Migrant’s Story is a tale of isolation, not just from a place, but also from family, and in some ways, from the self. - by Kanika Jain.
Short story by Debi Mukherjee: “Unlike the little girls I see outside temples, draped in their pano bhaju’s stringing garlands of Marigolds, I dare not play with the flowers in our garden. Papa cautions me against the rows of Mogras, Shoe-flowers, Frangipanis and a multitude of others. He says that I must not be lured by a flower’s fragrance.”