In Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, the grandmother’s worry about the transit from the West to the East of Bengal and the incongruity between her nationality and her birthplace leave her yearning for a fixed point. So, in her language, she mixes up going away with coming home, and she becomes an object of ridicule for the narrator. This paper explores today’s experiences of proliferating non-places in supermodernity—places of ephemerality, mobility, migration, as well as solitude and similitude (Marc Auge, Non Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity)—and illuminates how they problematize the tension between the troubling quest for a fixed point and temporality of home in literature of the Indian subcontinent.