Category: Book
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Happy Birthday, Why is My Skin Brown?
It’s Sunday night and I am catching up on work. As I wait for a batch to finish running, I am looking through my launch day checklist, all the different trackers I have going for the next few days and weeks. If the launch of Why is My Hair Curly? was pure vibes, this feels…
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Seeing Themselves: On Diversity in Children’s Books
“That is not cha-na, its chhan-na.” My 11-year-old daughter born and raised in America corrects the white traveler on television sampling street food somewhere in northern India. Our family is of Indian origin. We speak Tamil and English at home sprinkled liberally with words from Hindi that have made themselves part of our lexicon. “Chhan-na”…
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A New Book Is Coming: Why Is My Skin Brown?
A new middle-grade novel is on the way. Sarayu is twelve, Pennsylvania-born, and about to learn that Bengaluru has its own ideas about her skin.
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Table, Menu
I was scrolling Threads on a Saturday afternoon, the fan on, a clutch of kids in the home, loud, and an orange card slid up the feed. A quote, white text on saffron. Rutger Bregman, an essay about AI, a quote set in a frame. I hopped over to read the whole thing. I nodded…
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It’s Here. My Book.
Some of you have been waiting for this. Some of you didn’t know it was coming. Either way, I’m glad you’re here to read this. For a long time, the essays that make up this book lived in different corners of the internet: on Women’s Web, on Mutha Magazine, on Adoptive Families, and mostly here,…
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The Business of Self-Publishing: Beyond Writing and Editing
Amazon Accounts Payable reads the email notification at the top of my phone. I click on it too hurriedly only to realize I need to log in to check the details. An hour later, kitchen chores done, walk after dinner done, kids suitably engrossed in their phones and Amma downstairs in bed, I finally sit…
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Hindsight Paperback Now Available In India
Hindisght is now available as a paperback in India. Below are the links to order. Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/fTyPlkS NotionPress: https://notionpress.com/read/hindsight
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Acts Of Love
“Can I share your book as my WhatsApp status Amma?” Laddu’s voice carries from the family room where she is to the study where I am engrossed in My Dearest a sageuk saga that has me riveted. “Sure!” I say not quite comprehending what she asked. An hour later as I flip through my phone,…
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Cover Reveal: Hindsight
A picture is worth a thousand words or so they say. While we wait for my book to be available, here is the gorgeous cover designed by Santhya Shenbagam. Blurb: Set in the 90s India, Hindsight traces the life of Sandhya, Surya, and Aditya at college until a horrific incident tears them asunder. Fourteen years…