One of my most recent trip in this psycho-geographic journey has been to London, where I was to present at the British South Asian Studies Annual Conference. Here I visit the locations that Jatayu and Topshe visit on their first day of London, Picadally Square. In the novel, both of them are fascinated by the huge shopping centres and the bustling metropolitian energy of Picaddally square. They eventually do not buy much, except some pen and some notesbooks. Here I am, at the same intersection after buying gifts for my family.
I also visit the London Bridge, a location that Topshe and Jatayu cherish as Feluda is hard at work trying to solve the case. The Thames river is an important plot point in the novel, and here you see me posing with the river.
Both of these images are taken by my friend Surabhi Sanghi, a student in London at that time. These were taken as Surabhi showed me London, and our bodies occupied various layers of embodied memory.