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Troubled Pilgrimage
Born in Lahore in present-day Pakistan, Balwant Bhaneja grew up in the exiled Sindhi Hindu community of Delhi, before emigrating to Canada. Troubled Pilgrimage is his account of a journey to his ancestral Sindh in Pakistan. Struggling against the preconceptions nurtured in post-1947 India, and his own recent fears of the country he’s about to visit, Bhaneja finds in Sindh the familiar and the strange, a homeland whose experience is as warm as it is wrenching, dispelling misunderstandings while raising profound questions about himself. This account is at once a meditation on exile, home, and identity, and on being a modern Canadian, as it is a journey into the enchanting, mystical land that was lost to his people at the Partition.
“The book’s value is in the view it offers of a place . . . that most Canadians will never visit and the understanding that comes from such a view.” —The Ottawa Citizen
“[Troubled Pilgrimage] is a celebration of pluralism” —Quill & Quire
“Bill Bhaneja delivers an unusual and captivating on-the-ground view of the Upper Sindh region of Pakistan. His travels to Sindh are book-ended by another hunt: for the great leader and teacher, Mahatma Gandhi, who Bhaneja, as a young child, saw many times at prayer gatherings. Altogether, a fascinating journey.” –Mark Frutkin, author of Fabrizio’s Return
“Troubled Pilgrimage is the moving account of Balwant Bhaneja’s search for his ancestral roots in post-911 Pakistan…along the way sharing his reflections on memory, identity, irrevocable loss and strange twists of fate that determine our lives.” –James Loney, author of Captivity: 118 Days in Iraq and The Struggle for a World Without War
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Dimensions:
140 Pages
8.27in * 5.50in * .42in
220.00gr
Published:
October 24, 2013
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9781927494264
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eng
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