ABSTRACT
Statement: My dislocation in the Midwest is only external; the real place of fertility resides elsewhere. I continue to draw from the richness of my Indian origin and sources while, at the same time, maintaining a global perspective. I should say that I’ve always produced out of a double consciousness—from having multiple allegiances to place, language, religion, and ideology. I was bicultural in a different way even in Bombay, my birthplace. Every place remakes itself into an environment of exile that can be an extremely stimulating condition for a writer. I live, teach, and write the conflict itself.
