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What medieval town in South India have in common with the Washington, DC? How do people in Kashmir itself the freedom they long for? Who Delhi, a city of great monuments and hidden slums actually belong? And what makes the city or any place home? Ten intricately wrought essays, Gita Hariharan known author takes readers on an eye-opening journey through time and place, exploring the history, landscape, and people who shaped the world's most exciting and fraught with the city.

Inspired by a playful and powerful writing, Italo Calvino, travel and cities, Harihan combines memory and cultural criticism and history sculpt fascinating, layered stories about places around the world - from New Delhi, Mumbai and Kashmir, Palestine, Algeria and eleventh Cordova eternal , from Tokyo to New York and Washington. In narrating the life of these places, "the defeated and marginalized, it paves the depth of colonization and nation-building, poverty and war, the fight for human rights, and the day-to-day business survival Almost Home:. Finding a place in the world from Kashmir in New York introduces a new kind of travel writing that intellectual adventures, but never detached, couched in personal experience, but deeply involved in the world, inviting the reader to make surprising connections with her own sense of home.

In an essay, a benefit thoroughly cosmopolitan sensibility, Gita Hariharan not only takes us on illuminating tour of the city with a rich history, but gives voice to the city of people from around the world - Kashmir, Palestine, New Delhi - trying to live with basic human dignity in conditions of terrible repression and crushing poverty.

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