Book Summary of No Way Home

‘No matter how fond one might be of an alien land, no matter how much it offered, it could never be home.’



Punjab, early 1980s. As the separatists and the government threaten the peace of the land, another group—the more affluent feudals on the wane— looks West to escape.



Away from all this Dave, a young Sikh, is searching for a place he can call home. Unable to complete his PhD in the US, he returns to India without a green card much to the disappointment of his parents. He moves from Chandigarh to Delhi in search of a job but is trapped in the horrific massacre of Sikhs in 1984. Scarred, he moves to Canada, shuns his life of affluence and is faced with choices that change the course of his life for ever.



No Way Home is not only a sensitive portrait of the artist in search of roots, but also a chronicle of a time of great upheaval.

Amarjeet Sinha has been a keen student of social development in India and since joining the Indian Administrative Service in 1983, he has been constantly trying to learn from the experiences of common people, voluntary group etc., through intensive travel and interaction. After working for four years in the tribal district of Singhbhum in present day Jharkhand, he worked in the extremist affected district of Jehanabad and the urban slums of Ranchi. In 1994, he joined the faculty of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, where he was providing inputs to IAS officer trainees on Management of Social Sector programmes. Besides teaching, he travelled widely across the country and wrote extensively on the basis of his field visit and research work.