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“This land is your land, this land is my land/ From California to the New York Island/ From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters/ This land was made for you and me”
The invitation to inclusion and egalitarianism sung by Woody Guthrie could have prompted this book’s name. It was a poem by “Bengali-origin Assamese poet, Kazi Neel” that actually inspired it. Possibly riffing after Guthrie, Neel says, “This land is mine, I am not of this land”. The poignancy of it is tinged by a passage in the book that says, “[H]e loves India, but India refuses to
