David talks to the writer Annie Zaidi, winner of the Nine Dots Prize, about her remarkable memoir of life in India and the search for identity. It's s story of conflict, migration, belonging and the idea of home. We also discuss what home means for Indians now the country is under lockdown and Annie tells us how life is in Mumbai.
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Further Reading and listening:
Annie Zaidi's book
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bread-cement-cactus/75DCB40487D5CD8DCB772761555CF10C
Nine Dots Prize
https://ninedotsprize.org/
Annie Zaidi speaks to Qudsiya Ahmad, Head of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press India
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/nine-dots-prize-winner-annie-zaidi-indian-society
Guardian article about the Indian migration caused by lock-down
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/19/my-angel-man-who-became-face-of-indias-stranded-helped-home-by-stranger-coronavirus
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