Migration

“I am an eternal foreigner.”

“We are strangers in this land [of India].”

“I arrived as a Javanese in Europe and return a real German to Java.”

“However well I readjust myself to life in America, my youth, the best part of it, lies ever in the Orient.”

“You cannot, as someone put it, emigrate from your own time.”

“I was jobless and hungry when I came to Mumbai first.”

“the pull of Australia was enormous”

“Until then, the world only dealt with us as refugees.”

“Pakistan is no place for Hindus to live in and that their future is darkened by the ominous shadow of conversion or liquidation.”

“I relocated because I wanted to be closer to my son, although it was mainly due to the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown that restricted creatives from conducting live shows.”

“ولمّا كانت وسائط بلادنا المادية قاصرة عن إنجاح مطلبي، طمحت أفكاري إلى معالجة مقصدي في غيرها.”

“I moved to California just on a hunch that I would like it.”

“They made them strangers in the country of their own birth.”