I had thought once that I felt most at home in a plane in mid-air, but that isn't true. I belong to India and to the West. Both belong to me and both reject me. I have to make sense of what has been and what there is. Suniti Namjoshi traverses the cultures of the East and of the West. She muses on the patterns of her life, and of the impact of colonisation, both the resistances and the...

imago 1. the final and fully developed stage of an insect after all metamorphoses e.g. a butterfly or beetle. 2. Psychoanal. an idealised concept of a loved one formed in childhood and retained uncorrected in adult life. Molly Rose Moon dreamt of worms the night before she married Jimmy Brown in Tooting Bec. Milky sticky wet worms wriggled and fed off one another in clumps all over the...