Amandeep Sandhu » exotic https://www.amandeepsandhu.com Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:10:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 A Businessworld.in mention https://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=18 https://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=18#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:56:09 +0000 aman http://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=18 When I was writing Sepia Leaves I was concious that Rourkela was an artificial place built entirely out of the dream of one man – Jawaharlal Nehru – and with no sense of history because a lot of people, the tribal communities living there, were wiped out to create the town.

Reading Sanjitha’s review clarified the thought to me a little more. How do you describe a display window located in the midde of a marquee? She said Rourkela is ‘little India’, the kind you see when you travel abroad. In Sepia Leaves you are travelling within India, across the dreary plains of Orissa, into a place outside, into madness, into Rourkela, the display window of India.

See review here: Businessworld.in

Yes, Sepia Leaves does not do what most books on India do. Exoticise India. That is because it is located in exotic India, gone mad :)

  

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