Power Publisher’s New Release: Asylum, The Journey to Britain

June 16, 2012 - PRLog -- Ali Sajjad Hussain’s acumen lies in almost precise documentation of lives of people who left a mark on him. His portfolio led him to work with people of different nationalities, people leaving home for greener pastures, people seeking asylum in another country.

In all this Hussain has drawn deeply from human emotions, their hatred and their aspirations, their dreams and their hopelessness, their love and their separations. The emotions are strongly felt in his images, for they are stark images that the author leaves for the reader. He does not sit on judgment but leaves it open for interpretations. These are touching tales told simply. Published by Power Publishers the book narrates tales of immigrants tied by their roots, thriving in foreign countries, trying they best to mix in- yet somewhere the keep on nursing on their native wounds. Some out of compulsion and others out of nostalgic bindings are made to reassess their decisions and their reasons to leave the land of their birth. Life shows them new ways yet they find it difficult to rub off their past from their existence- thus differentiating them from others around.
The author’s work at the Metropolitan Police services also helped him “see into the life of things” (Wordsworth). It is as if the author is taking a peek into the lives of these simple folks – ordinary men, women and children – who suffer from insecurity, from fear of being uprooted. Hussain’s writings are like a kaleidoscope of images, moving from one emotion to another, from one home to another, always seeking and sometimes finding and sometimes living with an undying belief that “one day” they will find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Life, to the author, is seen in myriad shades of black, grey and white. The author never sits on judgment on his protagonists. He merely sees their pain and narrates them, almost clinically, but in that clinical description, the pain is sharper and the images starker. A British citizen of Indian origin, Ali Sajjad Hussain’s experience in working for the Home Office gave him all the experience he needed to write a tale of people uprooted from one culture and seeking a home somewhere else in the world.

Book: Asylum.......the journey to Britain
Author: Ali Sajjad Hussain’s
Price: Rs.250
Pages: 150
ISBN: 978-93-82070-22-1
Publishing Date: 2012
Publisher: Power Publishers