Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: An Introduction and an Invitation

Abstract

Roots and routes are perennial challenges and invitations of humanity and this volume explores many dimensions of these challenges as they relate to construction and production of identity, ethnicity and social creativity. In his introduction to the volume, Ananta Kumar Giri discusses all the chapters in the volume and argues how these different narrations of the human condition urge us to find creative ways of cross-fertilization of roots rather than be locked in wars among roots and between roots and routes.