The Genesis Story is a tale of four weddings that have brought my family and me into being. It traverses three generations that ride elephants, scooters, aeroplanes, and cars through the decades, sweeping through to the present, shattering a personal fairy tale to smithereens in the final count. Though the work is generated from a personal space, it confronts the enormous challenges that families like mine, from partitioned Bengal, have undergone in the course of the 20 th century and the sea changes that have occurred due to displacement and enforced migration. The work carries several elements in both the imagery and the text that are typically representative of the altering time spaces and mindsets. Despite the apparently naive aspect of the work, and the humour and nostalgia that camouflage the bulk of the text, it confronts not only the personal, but also the public trauma of displacement in the age of globalisation — the question “Who am I, bereft of the roots that I have never known, forever building roofs where I do not belong?”