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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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Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for… — Bharati Mukherjee
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