Farewell Karachi

When celebrity journalist and writer Bhawana Somaaya''s therapist once asked her what her biggest fear in life was, she unthinkingly said, ''It''s not having a roof over my head.'' Until then, she had never acknowledged the intergenerational trauma-informed instinct of displacement and placelessness. She was yet to unpack its haunting grip on her flights, fights and freezes.

Farewell Karachi is the...