A Tale in Travel Writing: Tabish Khairs The Bus Stopped

Author: Prof Sucheta Pathania and Dr. Rakesh Kumar

Published On: 2025-05-01

The travel writing has always been popular for sharing the experiences of fun, pleasure and memories of a writer visiting a particular region, route, place or even a culture. The recent human history marks a number of migrations from third World countries to the first world. Approximately two hundred and eighty million people live in countries other than the countries of their birth. Their frequent visits to their native countries or the other places of the world produce a great volume of literature in the travel writing apart from other travel writers. TabishKhair is one of the established diaspora writers of Indian origin, presently living in Denmark, and has madesignificant contributions in the travel literature. His novel The Bus Stopped, offers various features of the travel writing in special regard to his nostalgia for Bihar, India. The novel offers interesting narratives about a bus journey from Gaya to Phansa of his native land Bihar in which a number of stories imbed and create this master piece.

Keywords: Travelogue, Nostalgia, Notion of home, Diasporic sensibility, Regionalism.