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Creating the Story of Everywhere- Social Connectivity and Cultural Understanding

Creating the Story of Everywhere- Social Connectivity and Cultural Understanding. Sanjukta Dasgupta. Flows of migrants from India before 1947. Source: Global South Asians. Flows of South Asian migrants after 1947 . Source: Global South Asians.

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Creating the Story of Everywhere- Social Connectivity and Cultural Understanding

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  1. Creating the Story of Everywhere- Social Connectivityand Cultural Understanding Sanjukta Dasgupta

  2. Flows of migrants from India before 1947 Source: Global South Asians

  3. Flows of South Asian migrants after 1947 Source: Global South Asians

  4. “ the history of India does not belong to one particular race but to a process of creation to which various races of the world contributed- the Dravidians and the Aryans, the ancient Greeks and the Persians, The Mohammedans of the West and those of central Asia. Now at last has come the turn of the English to become true to this history…” (Tagore Nationalism 63)

  5. “ I have become a queer mixture of the East and West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere… They are both part of me…I am a stranger and alien in the west. I cannot be of it. But in my own country also, sometimes, I have an exile’s feeling. (596) Jawaharlal Nehru (Autobiography 596)

  6. “ I occasionally experience myself as a cluster of flowing currents. I prefer this to the idea of a solid self, the identity to which so many attach so much significance…” (Edward Said Out of Place 295)

  7. “ I am Indian and African and all screwed up with Westerneducation and all she sees is “ Third World”. (M.G.Vassanji Amrika 115)

  8. “ I can be at the same time, an Asian, an Indian citizen, a Bengali with Bangladeshi ancestry, an American or British resident, an economist, a dabbler in philosophy, an author, a Sanskritist, a strong believer in secularism and democracy, a man, a feminist, a heterosexual, a defender of gay and lesbian rights, with a nonreligious lifestyle, from a Hindu background, a non-Brahmin, and a non-believer in after-life” (Amartya Sen Identity and Violence19)

  9. Diversity appears to “bring out the turtle in us” Robert Putnam (Diversity and Community in the twenty first Century: The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture)

  10. “ she is as English as daffodils or chicken tikka masala”   Definitive description of an Englishwoman in a London newspaper  (Cited by Amartya Sen in Identity and Violence 154)

  11. Thank you

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