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IndiaStar Book-Review: Sanjay Nigam's The Non-Resident Indian and Other Stories IndiaStar--A Literary-Art Magazine --Book Review-- Non-Resident Indian and Other Stories by Sanjay Nigam (Penguin India , 1996) 203 pages Rs. 150 Reviewed by Robbie Clipper Sethi [Editor's intro: Robbie Clipper Sethi, Ph.D., (UC Berkeley,1981) is Associate Professor of English at Rider University, New Jersey. She is the author of The Bride Wore Red. ] Non-Resident Indian and Other Stories begins with the myth of Trishanku, in a prologue entitled Stuck. A mortal desirous of immortality, Trishanku pays for his brief stay with the gods by spending eternity stuck between heaven and earth watching souls transmigrate from one life to the next. Trishanku is Nigam's metaphor for the non-resident Indian, stuck in a variety of North American locales, from New York to Texas, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Los Angeles and others. At Walden Pond, Arvind Prakash Sehgal reconnects with his youth...