In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy. — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“It's making life important, making a single life important, rather than having a prescription for the global ills which afflict us.” — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me. — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore house, home, where the… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money.… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Love on the decline is hard to tell from love on the rise.” [From 'The Lady from Lucknow']” — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
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