In “Historying the Syllabic Landscape”, the opening poem of Nandini Dhar’s Historians of Redundant Moments (2017), the narrator tells us: “A home / is a city. A city is a home.” The second assertion is easy to comprehend: Many of us have found urban spaces to be hospitable and have grown over-familiar with their landscapes. The first claim, that a home is also a city, is a little more difficult to grasp. One could deduce that it refers to tenements being the smallest units — the alphabets —
that compose a city’s narrative. But, one could also argue that the domestic
