A LONG WAY FROM HOME
“IN AUSTRALIA, I AM ALWAYS A MINORITY, ALWAYS A BROWN MAN, AND ALWAYS OBSERVING—AND BEING PRICKED BY—THINGS THAT I SEE HAPPENING TO SOUTH ASIANS AROUND ME”
’S EPIGRAPH BORROWS FROM AN INSCRIPTION ON AN ARCH IN CHINATOWN, SYDNEY. IT READS: “Within the four seas all men are brothers”. Irony eclipses idealism—in today’s world, this is a widely incongruous thought. The year 2020 began with Brexit finally
