The lecture was held at the National Library of Wales with the generous support of Literature Across Frontiers, Alexandra Büchler , Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones and the Charles Wallace India Trust in May 2024.
19 January 2025 marks 35 years since the Kashmiri Pandit Exodus from the valley in 1990.
Here's my lecture "my memory is getting in the way of your history" derived from my book on Kashmiri Pandit women and the exile.
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#kashmiripandits #kashmiripanditexodus
Han Kang’s Nobel Prize speech next week is going to be VERY interesting
Writing is like doing exploratory surgery on yourself. You take out all of your internal organs and put them on the table and hope you can put them back in the right order and that you make it out alive somehow.
Why though 😭
The Camus quote reminded me of the Aberystwyth seaside in Wales, UK. I wrote many poems this year on the beaches of Aber (ngl, they were mostly about seagulls.)
A novel about my kind of work ... I shall faint!
Omg omg omg!!! Do linguists fall in love in this novel? I hope you publish it.
So glad! Hope you enjoy it! 🩷
I am just a galley girl, looking for my bookish-cinema community.
Here's Haruki Murakami's new novel!✨
I feel like I’m starting at a new school here