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It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet I recall an anxiety as I travelled the length and breadth of the country, senses raw to every new experience, that even in the distraction of a blink I might miss something profoundly significant.
I was not born in India, nor were my parents; that might explain much in my expectation of that visit. Yet how many people go to the homeland of their grandparents with such a heartload of expectation and momentousness; such a desire to find themselves in everything they see? Is it only India that clings thus, to those who’ve forsaken it; is this why Indians in a foreign land seem always so desperate to seek each other out? What was India to me?
The inimitable M.G. Vassanji turns his eye to India, the homeland of his ancestors, in this powerfully moving tale of family and country. Part travelogue, part history, A Place Within is M.G. Vassanji’s intelligent and beautifully written journey to explore where he belongs.
About the Author
M.G. Vassanji is the author of the acclaimed novels The Assassin’s Song, shortlisted for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, The Gunny Sack, which won a regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, No New Land, and Amriika. He has twice been awarded the Giller Prize, for his novels The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. Vassanji lives in Toronto.
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Re: A PLACE WITHIN: REDISCOVERING INDIA
Ottawa International Writer’s Festival Event
One on One with MG Vassanji on Wednesday, November 5, 7:30pm, Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts and Humanities
(314 Saint Patrick, Ottawa, Canada)
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neerav patel, 4, hemang park, b/h boot bhavani temple, vejalpur, ahmedabad, india.
feb 23, 2011
dear sir,
i was searching about you and the first thing i did is watch you on YOUTUBE in an interview.
and on further browsing, here i get to know that there is a book called ‘A PLACE WITHIN’
that i must read as it is about India. i am curious to know in the book whether you came across anything related to the dalit problem in india.
i will locate it in some store and return to you after reading the same.
many greetings of the day.
with sincere regards ,
neerav patel
(a dalit poet)
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