When I read Salman Rushdie’s essay “Imaginary Homelands” in high school, I was blown away. I had never read someone who handled the themes of a fragmented nostos, displaced identity, and cultural duplexity with more nuance... the first Asian anglophone writers are in fact South Asian, and they are the ones who have shown us an English literature that can not only speak to diasporic communities worldwide, but also to humanity at large.