Aatish Taseer - Return to Self: Excursions in Exile
From Required Reading from Liberties by Liberties Journal
November 11, 2025 · 35 min
About this episode
Aatish Taseer discusses his memoir about losing his Indian citizenship and the impact of that experience on his identity.
On November 7th, 2019, the Indian government revoked Aatish Taseer's Indian citizenship. In this episode of Required Reading , MORTEN HØI JENSEN and AATISH TASEER discuss Taseer’s recent book Return to Self: Excursions in Exile , a memoir about processing that violent ejection and grappling with the shards of self which remain after statehood.
People in this episode
Host: Morten Høi Jensen
Guest: Aatish Taseer
Topics covered
- citizenship
- exile
- memoir
- identity
- statehood
- self-discovery
Keywords
- Aatish Taseer
- Morten Høi Jensen
- citizenship
- exile
- memoir
- identity
- statehood
- self-discovery
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Return to Self: Excursions in Exile
Places: India
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