Storizen – July 2019

COVER STORY

10 | STORIZEN MAGAZINE JULY 2019

images started to swim up, of

a time that I had left behind,

or so I thought...

I tried to resist. After all, I was

jobless by choice, unburdened

by motherhood, ready to

explore a shiny first-world city!

But the neat white Ikea table

in my newly-set-up study drew

me in repeatedly. There I’d sit

after my husband left for

office, with my second cup of

tea, and memories that rose

unbidden, like the fragrance of

the night-blooming jasmine in

All right, I determined, I would offload those

memories onto my PC and be done with

them. I was naive. One memory led to

another, then another, a labyrinth opening up

for me to wade in.

the garden of our home in Ferozepur.

All right, I determined, I would offload

those memories onto my PC and be

done with them. I was naive. One

memory led to another, then another,

a labyrinth opening up for me to wade

in. That period of my life came back to

me with the kind of hi-fidelity

reproduction enthusiasts wax about.

To make sense of those memories I

started asking questions. My research

took me back in time and it was the

national library, not any salon, that

became my haunt. Seven years later,

I had a book: The Long Walk Home.