Afghan Communities in Delhi, co-published by the Centre for Community Knowledge (CCK) in India and HAB, shares words in the Dari dialect and English that emerged from conversations with Afghans in Delhi. Through the fictionalised account of a young woman named Maryam, Afghan-Sikh researchers Harpreet and Gurpreet Kaur draw upon the stories of the Afghan diaspora's everyday lives, many of whom fled Afghanistan to restart their lives from scratch, educating themselves in the hopes of moving to the United States or Canada, where many diasporic Afghans have settled.

The descriptions that accompany each word tell of journeys, challenges, fears, and hopes to give the reader a sense of what it means to 'be an Afghan' in the city. Also acting as a kind of 'memory book', readers are able to know the diaspora through their common anecdotes and experiences in the way it was narrated to the researchers which with the accompanying illustrations, give an insight into the unique details that make the life of the community. 

Download the full digital copy of this wordbook here.