McCluskieganj English 2015

After living in Hong Kong upto the age of twenty, Robin McGowan undertakes a trip to India to the village his father always told him about. McKluskiegunj, an agricultural haven formed in the early 1940s for the Anglo-Indians to live in. But on his arrival, he witnesses that the village is no longer the idyllic home of his father's childhood, it is overrun by outlaws and riddled with politicking, land mafia and conflicts between the various tribes and Anglo-Indians who used to coexists peacefully in the past. A story about the search for home and beauty and the struggle repair life, Mckluskiegunj is an extraordinary novel about memory, displacement and the unflagging desire to belong.