Humanising the refugee

The book has testimonies of young adults who had trouble completing their education in exile for lack of familiarity with the local medium of instruction

A 2016 report by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that 65 million people across the globe have been uprooted and displaced from their homeland on account of war and persecution. Yet, the so-called “refugee” crisis has remained a faceless one. The individual microscopic stories of people forced to flee for their lives and liberty do not often become the mainstream narrative as often as they should. Humans on the Run by Kumar M Tiku is one of the many recent books that attempts to bring these stories to life, and through them, make visible the human face