Lachchhi: The newness of nostalgia

लच्छी : सयाने समय की नई बात
Lachchhi: The newness of nostalgia
Lachchhi is a story of both resisting and being consumed by nostalgia. The novella navigates the social worlds of postcolonial subjectivities - retired bureaucrats, sociable housewives, unarticulated intimacies, curious tall tales, inherited kinships and litigious crusaders unraveling in the Himalayan town of Almora. Told in the voice of the re-visiting granddaughter, Lachchhi is at once the map of a home, a neighborhood, a town and a region wrought with her own disaffection about recalling past as she confronts it in the present. Part humorous and poignant, Lachchhi’s story is a story of the claims of memory upon us.
Bhoomika Joshi is a doctoral candidate in socio-cultural anthropology at Yale University. She is a full-time anthropologist and part-time bilingual writer and translator. Lachchhi (New Delhi: Vani Prakashan 2020) is her first published novella.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
4:30 pm
Room 212, 10 Sachem