Borderlands: TRAVELS ACROSS INDIA'S BOUNDARIES

For most residents of India’s bustling metros and big towns, nationality and citizenship are privileges that are often taken for granted. The country’s periphery, however, is dotted with sleepy towns and desolate villages whose people, simply by having more in common with citizens of neighbouring nations than with their own, have to prove their Indian identity every day.




It is these specks on the country’s map that Pradeep Damodaran rediscovers as he travels across India’s borders for a litt...