A fellow watcher of Korean dramas and also an avid reader responded to my review of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian on a Facebook readers group neatly summarised what I had begun to suspect after immersing myself into Korean novels – that the shows and books...
The Reluctant Mother by Zehra Naqvi The Book: The Reluctant Mother is a book of rage. Rage at being alone in your pain, having your conflict belittled, and your struggles trivialised. It is the story of a young woman who seeks to find herself in a world that...
“What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do” ~ Elizabeth Lesser My primary goal for this podcast was to create a space for discussions about ‘desi divorce’, a subject that is not spoken about. And today I am...
Sharing the very first essay that I felt brave enough to send out for publication. It appeared in the San Jose Mercury News in California in September 2002. The baby referred to in this essay is now getting ready to fly the nest. Perhaps it’s time for an...
Between work and home, as I try to find moments of solitude to write, I despair. But I am not the only one struggling with the reality of life, I am just one link in the chain of women writers who triumphed over gender-specific barriers to bring their art to life. In...
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