“My father once, in New York, exasperated by my relentless demands to be sent back to finish high school in Bombay, shouted at me, ‘When you were there, you wanted to come here. Now that you’re here, you want to go back.’ It was when I first realised I had a new nationality: I was an exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.”
–Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
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