Aatish Taseer - Return to Self: Excursions in Exile
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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.
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