ये कहानियाँ मेरे लिए इसलिए महत्वपूर्ण नहीं हैं कि वे दक्षिण एशियाई लोगों पर आधारित हैं, बल्कि इसलिए हैं क्योंकि वे एक ऐसे अकेलेपन के इर्द-گرد घूमती हैं जो सांस्कृतिक मतभेदों से कहीं अधिक गहरा है—जिसका संबंध किसी अन्य व्यक्ति से, या घर की किसी अप्राप्य कल्पना से जुड़ने की तड़प से है।
These stories are important to me, not because they happen to be about South Asians, but because they’re circling around a certain strain of loneliness that goes deeper than cultural dissonance, that has to do with the yearning to connect with someone else, or with some unreachable vision of home.
These stories are important to me, not because they happen to be about South Asians, but because they’re circling around a certain strain of loneliness that goes deeper than cultural dissonance, that has to do with the yearning to connect with someone else, or with some unreachable vision of home.
मैं यहाँ इसलिए हूँ क्योंकि आप वहाँ थे।
I am here because you were there.
I am here because you were there.