Stranger in My Own Land: A Muslim in India After 2014

Farid Khan, Jerry Pinto & Naseeruddin Shah

ISBN 10: 9392018665 / ISBN 13: 9789392018664

Published by LeftWord Books, 2025

About this Item

It is my experience that when a mobile phone rings on a train, no one uses the greeting Salaam . Even if the caller uses the word, one cannot reply in kind. Not in a railway compartment. One makes do with a Hello . The conversation is kept short, monosyllables or even sounds: Hmmm or Haanh. In the train now , Just leaving the station are the only full sentences one hears. For the rest, half-sentences do the work. It is as if both parties are discussing the spot marked X on an ancient treasure map. This book is about silences and monosyllables. It is about experiencing a reality that some strenuously deny, but for others is as real as the pinch of a new shoe.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stranger in My Own Land: A Muslim in India After 2014
• Publisher: LeftWord Books
• Publication Date: 2025
• ISBN 10: 9392018665
• ISBN 13: 9789392018664
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

“It is my experience that when a mobile phone rings on a train, no one uses the greeting ‘Salaam’. Even if the caller uses the word, one cannot reply in kind. Not in a railway compartment. One makes do with a ‘Hello’. The conversation is kept short, monosyllables or even sounds: Hmmm or Haanh. ‘In the train now’, ‘Just leaving the station’ are the only full sentences one hears. For the rest, half-sentences do the work. It is as if both parties are discussing the spot marked X on an ancient treasure map.”

This book is about silences and monosyllables. It is about experiencing a reality that some strenuously deny, but for others is as real as the pinch of a new shoe.