Point of Return: A Novel Book

A moving and poignant tale about a father and son set in that elusive and enigmatic place that we call home. The author calls himself an "inept archaeologist of memories" who is writing this book about his father who finds himself in post-partition India and Nehruvian uprightness in Assam. A tale of conflicts between migrants and tribals, blindness to the fast-changing pace of politics, of bribery and paranoia in a place where the idea of India never took seed. The two main themes of the book are memory and homeland, or rather, the absence of a homeland: "We are a dispersed people, wandering, but unlike the Jews we have no mythical homeland." The book so beautifully captures the difficulty in making sense of "home" for people who choose to leave the places where they are born. What is home, anyway? Fewer and farther visits, smells, someone's version of an insignificant memory, people left behind, diaries, pictures, and a place devoid of imaginations on google maps?