Jai Arjun Singh reviews a collection of stories which falls in the ‘Diaspora fiction’ category but isn’t ’stereotypical’:

Reading Karma and Other Stories is a reminder that we live in a world where people travel more extensively than at any earlier point in human history, where an increasing number of people are moving out of their comfort zones and settling down in places that their grandparents, even parents, might have regarded with suspicion. Given all this, the very label “Diaspora fiction” can be a restrictive one, more exotic-sounding than it needs to be, and not indicative of how commonplace immigrant problems are in today’s world. It’s like the recent comic strip in a daily newspaper, with two children standing by a globe, one of them pointing and saying, “that isn’t the world, it’s the Diaspora”.