Susanta Majumdar, 13 December 2009

on: In Turkey, a Novel Is a Public Statement‏, interview with Elif Shafak by Lewis Gropp I am from India. Thanks for the interview with Ms Shafak. I have just finished her Bastard of Istanbul. It's a wonderful book. Having spent most of my life among the refugees of partition of India, my roots also go back to Bangladesh though my family migrated to Calcutta before independence and so I am technically not a refugee, to me the central theme of the novel is whether we should forget individual and social history to build up a better world.