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When I was 4, my family moved from Chennai to Jakarta. When I was 18, I moved to America to pursue my Bachelor’s degree and career opportunities. Therefore, from a young age, I have been a cocktail of cultures: sometimes confused, sometimes misplaced but always inquisitive and respectful of diversity. Stories from my own life and those of other third culture women have inspired
Not Really Indian.
Not Really Indian is a collection of short stories that challenge stereotypes and narrate the tales of women who long to be both Indian and worldly at once.
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All of us just want to be accepted: Deepa Mehta
Tue, Feb 23 2021 09:24:46 AM
By Sukant Deepak
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS): All of us are funny boys and girls, we all just want to be accepted, whether for our choices, sexuality, race or cultures. The film is finally a plea for tolerance, says Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta on her latest film Funny Boy , which centres on the coming of age of a young Tamil boy in Sri lanka who is coming to terms with his homosexuality against the backdrop of the increased tensions between Tamil and Sinhalese communities before the breakout of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Novelist Avni Doshi: Had to battle my inner censor
Novelist Avni Doshi: Had to battle my inner censor
Last Updated: Thu, Feb 11th, 2021, 13:39:02hrs
Speaking to IANSlife ahead of her JLF session, in which she is in conversation with Janice Pariat to examine the roots of this compelling and raw narrative and unravel its questions of identity, love and trauma, the Dubai-based writer delves deep into the making of her book.
Excerpts: Burnt Sugar , your Booker-nominated debut, was written over several years. How close was the final manuscript to the first thought in your head?
Doshi: The novel was written over seven years. I wrote many drafts of the book, and each one was very different than the one before. Sometimes, if I think back over every iteration of the story, I feel I have written seven different novels. At the beginning, the novel was centred around an ashram in an unnamed town. The narrator also was nameless a nameless, little girl. I was afraid, I think, of naming t
INDIA New England News
By Siddhi Jain
New Delhi– Indian-origin novelist and Booker Prize nominee Avni Doshi, who is a speaker at the upcoming Jaipur Literature Festival, says that she had to abandon many preconceived notions while writing the drafts of her debut novel ‘Burnt Sugar’ (published as ‘The Girl in White Cotton’ in India).
Speaking to IANSlife ahead of her JLF session, in which she is in conversation with Janice Pariat to examine the roots of this compelling and raw narrative and unravel its questions of identity, love and trauma, the Dubai-based writer delves deep into the making of her book.
Author Sandeep Raina.
About ten pages into Sandeep Raina’s novel, the Kashmiri Pandit protagonist is asked if he would like to watch a film about the history of the concentration camp he is visiting. Rahul Razdan has just arrived in Europe after six despairing years in Delhi, and walking around Dachau has already filled his mind with thoughts of his homeland. Something about the Austrian stranger’s innocuous question jolts the usually subdued young professor out of melancholia into sudden rage. “I have seen it all, I have felt it, I have been the film. Why would I want to see it all again?” he snaps.