Nitin Shankar is a product of several cultures and his memoir describes his experiences in countries ranging from India and Iran to Germany and Switzerland. While this autobiography describes the people who played an important part in his life, it also captures the atmosphere of towns such as Bombay in forties, Berlin in fifties, Warsaw and Milan in sixties and Tabriz in seventies. Much more than a memoir, Permanent Ghosts is a nostalgic journey into a world that exists only in our memories.