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By Khumi Tonsing Burton — July 29, 2025
By  Jamuna Devi Advani — August 31, 2016

Category: Diaspora

Khumi Tonsing Burton   -   July 29, 2025
I met the man who would become my husband in the most unexpected way on an Air India flight to Beirut in late 1973. I was a cabin crew member, and he was one of the passengers. The flight was turbulent, and I was focused on just getting through the service without getting sick, flying […]
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Jamuna Devi Advani   -   August 31, 2016
Leaving India I left India in November 1994 for Canada to start a new life with mixed feelings. Leaving behind my near and dear ones was not easy but at the same time, the prospect of settling down near our children was a dream come true. My husband, Rup, decided to join me later while […]
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Easterine Kire   -   January 6, 2014
When Tash Aw, author of The Harmony Silk Factory was asked, “Tash, where is home?” He replied, “For the moment, home is a basement flat in London.” Tash Aw is from Taiwan, settled now in the UK. Tash Aw’s books were long listed for the Booker Prize in 2005 and again in 2013. I begin […]
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