Crossing Black Waters

Crossing Black Waters is an exploration of borders through one family’s personal odyssey from the violent upheaval of the Partition of India in 1947 to emigrating to the U.S. The book delves into the psychological impact of leaving behind a past that keeps
pulsating behind swinging shutters of thought
to recreate lives and identities anew, and searches for
home –a
lonely room in the [my] mind,
a
heartache
at the
end of rainbows,
or else a fictitious
country,
built around
hubs
of friendships forged over
glasses of wine and tandoori chicken.
A key phrase is
I am knot –the
not
of losing one’s identity and family coupled with the idea that one cannot truly be separate and is
knotted
with the past and kin for life.