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Look up the dictionary for the meaning of the word 'diaspora'. What do you understand of the Indian diaspora from this piece?  

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The dictionary meaning of 'diaspora' is "the movement of people from any nation or group away from their own country". The narration,'The Ghat of the Only World' describes many Indians living in the United States, away from their motherland. Shahid lived in Manhattan and later shifted to Brooklyn. His sister taught at the Pratt Institute. Amitav Ghosh lived a few block away. Though the narrator and Shahid lived in United States they loved Rogan Josh, Begum Akhtar and Kishore Kumar. Shahid had a passionate love for Kashmir, so that he wanted to go back to Kashmir to die.