Tag: Bombay
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The Path to Writing
Novelist, Thrity Umrigar, whom I recently interviewed, states that she grew up in a middle-class home in Bombay, India that was not necessarily overflowing with books. Her father owned a business and while she encouraged to read and develop proper use of language, stating that she wanted to become a writer would not have been…
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Thrity Umrigar and the Timeless Tapestries of Her Stories
I discovered Thrity Umrigar last year when I read “The Space Between Us“. It’s a wonderful novel about what the title states, the space between us, us being a well-educated Parsi mother and widow Sera Dubash, and her poor, illiterate housekeeper, Bhima.