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• In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who,…
• In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant…
• My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the…
• What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?
• I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never…
• The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
• I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand…
• Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for…
• I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's…
• I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in…
• There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me…
• Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought…

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