Portable Roots: A Saga of the Tamil Diaspora

by Sivasankari, Rekha Shetty

Story of a Tamil family in diaspora, US. excellent on culture, family. Originally written in Tamil, transcreated by Shetty

265 pages, Paperback

First published March 3, 2007

About the author

Sivasankari is an Indian author and activist who writes in Tamil. She is one of the four Tamil writers asked by the United States Library of Congress to record their voice as part of the South Asian article on Sivashankari.

Reviews

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Look, I dived into Portable Roots: A Saga of the Tamil Diaspora expecting standard mainstream commentary, but Sivasankari straight-up shreds the sanitized official narrative and exposes the raw mechanics of who actually holds power.

[Samyuktha jayaprakash · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very honest book. A bit too regressive maybe uptill the end. Kind of hard to believe that NRI's are so much more orthodox. But rings true. A very fast read. Hoped for more liberal commentary throughout the book rather than the late realization. But brought out the confusions and frustrations of the parents very well.