Introduction You and I, we’re similar—away from home, with a fragmented memory of our cultural identity. Salman Rushdie’s ‘Imaginary Homelands’ touches upon a critical element: we lose touch with the physical reality of the places in which we grew up, and as time goes on, our minds create fictionalized versions of them. A chunk of what drives our memory is the physical space, but moreso the folklore narrated to us by the older generations. Folklore often serves as the underlying tapestry that...