An Unfinished Search (Paperback)

Three generations of a family search for their identity, as their village changes its identity from being Indian, to being Pakistani, to being Bangladeshi. Born out of wedlock in the village of Hazratkandi, Anjaan’s tale traces the desperate search of three generations of Hazratkandis for their identity, which they believe lies buried in the martyr’s graves of Malegarh, in Assam’s Karimganj district.

Asman Hazratkandi, the last in his line, remains in the village where he was born, while the village itself is shoved from India first to Pakistan, and then to Bangladesh. Asman Hazratkandi belonged nowhere. In life, no land accepted him. In death, he lay in the no man’s land at the Indo-Bangladesh international border, leaving behind an unfinished search.