Amitav Ghosh in The Shadow Lines presents the major character as a global citizen existing in the liminality of national boundaries to show the concept of nationalism as simulation. The characters used in The Shadow Lines by Ghosh as Tridib, Grandmother, Mayadebi, the narrator, May Price, Ila, Nick, Mike, Robi, Khalil project nationalism, communal discord, and political freedom in two subtitles called 'Coming Home' and 'Going Away' in which geographical and cultural boundaries are dismantled through imagination. Besides, these subtitles are interchangeably used to describe the three specific territories as Dhaka, Calcutta, and London (England). So by blurring the geographical demarcation rather than limiting themselves into the single boundary, they go away at the same time as they come home.

boundaries, childhood, freedom, geographical, memories, protagonist