LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 1 January 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Affinity and Alienation -
The Predicament of the Internal Migrant in
Anjum Hasan's Neti Neti

Anita Balakrishnan, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

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Migration within India

In an era of large-scale shifts of people, information, objects, and images across continents, the internal migration of individuals and groups within a nation are often overlooked. Such migrations are largely the result of uneven development in the aftermath of colonization and are seen most starkly in the northeastern states of India. Siddhartha Deb, writing about this region, notes that,

The modern secular nation state adopted as a political model for India demands a certain flattening out of differences and the imposition of a structure that does not consider small or anomalous groups of people… If nations have to be imagined into being, the people of the north-east represent the most remarkable failure of the imagination in regard to India (88).

This region has been beset with many problems, underdevelopment, militancy, cross-border refugee and smuggling problems, that have led to widespread disaffection among its inhabitants. This has resulted in the phenomenon of widespread migration of the people of the northeast to the metropolitan cities, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore. It is the consequences of such a move that are focused on in Anjum Hasan's second novel, Neti, Neti (2009).

Anjum and Her Character Sophie

Poet and novelist Anjum Hasan carries across Sophie Das from her first novel Lunatic in My Head (2007), and allows her full rein to explore the internal and external complications that crop up as a result of her move from Shillong to Bangalore.

There are many similarities between Anjum Hasan and Sophie, not the least that both moved to Bangalore in their twenty- fifth year. But Hasan, in an interview with Nisha Susan, asserts that this is the only similarity between her and Sophie besides the fact that they both felt alienated in Bangalore. However, a cursory glance at Hasan's life reveals that like Sophie, Hasan was the offspring of a union between parents hailing from different states of India. In a manner very similar to Hasan's own parents, Sophie's Bengali academic father and unassuming Punjabi mother might have settled in Shillong to escape the social ostracism that their marriage generated.

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