"In Santacruz, Diagnosed Home Sick" is a poem by the Indian English poet and novelist K Srilata.
[1] This was the first major literary award for Srilata, who subsequently won the Unison British Council Award and Charles Wallace Fellowship for Poetry.
The poem has received critical acclaim since its first publication in 1998 in the book Emerging Voices[2] and has since been widely anthologised.
[3] The poem has been frequently quoted in scholarly analysis of contemporary Indian English poetry.
[4] The poem has inspired many literary works of similar name.