Reading Airplane Mode by Shahnaz Habib. Just about finished.
What a wonderful book. One would think of the typical traveller’s journal discussion but this book is not that. She moves travel into various domains that are expressions of concern and also delight.
As Europeans have used the term ‘discovered’ in their description of landing first on some land mass Shahnaz puts the term in to proper context. Pseudodiscovery. Europeans didn’t arrive first, someone was already there. You Europeans only discovered a way to colonize a culture by describing yourselves in such an elevated term.
From a unique Indian-Asian view this book a refreshing and will change the way you view your next journey out of your neighbourhood.
Tinfoiling 