Updated On: 15 July, 2024 09:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Nandini Varma
It’s time for students to fly overseas for higher education. As they get busy with checklists and pack their bags, we curate a reading list to help explore experiences and their search for home in foreign lands

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This is the story of a young student and his days studying English at Oxford, thinking back on the life, the people, and his visits back home to Mumbai during vacations and Kolkata after. Chaudhuri’s love of music casts a shadow over the life of the narrator as he remembers his parents, his mother’s music teacher, and his practice in his room during his time at the university. For those looking to delve further into Chaudhuri’s meditative prose and narratives of living in London as a young student, Odysseus Abroad is another book to turn to.