I think they way Rushdie chooses to look at his homeland when writing about it is super interesting. He notes that in facing his problem of recapturing his image of India, he realized that his image of India was in fact his. It is unique to him. His version of India would be different from the million other possible India’s, and because he moved away from his homeland, he was faced with the fact that his view of India is fragmented. Lower down the page he states that “The broken mirror may actually be as valuable as the one which is supposedly unflawed.” He notes that because his memories of India are so fragmented, it makes what he can remember seem like symbols, despite how mundane they may seem.