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In 2004, in Sudan, the two decade old civil war in the south was coming to an end, just as the conflict in Darfur was starting to take up space in the international pages. In the midst of all this, the author went to work in a little known part of Eastern Sudan, in the field of refugee protection. Her experiences there and later in Liberia, gave her an unforgettable and poignant sense of what it means to be uprooted, rendered homeless, to grow up in camps, to always feel like and be an outsider. As she turned thirty, she started to face a sense of personal rootlessness; in Indian terms, she was "unsettled" in every way that mattered. As a young Indian woman, she traveled between the world of Africans and the world of Europeans and Americans?she had a passport to both, but she belonged to none. She came of age in Sudan and Liberia, falling in love, fighting for what mattered to her, struggling to find a place for herself in the world. In this extraordinary and moving personal memoir, Kamini Karlekar explores what it means to be unsettled?and to belong. ISBN - 9788189975463
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Pages : 184
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