indian women writers Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/tag/indian-women-writers-2/ Sat, 17 Dec 2016 19:17:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Writing Well, Thanks to Mom https://booksbywomen.org/writing-well-thanks-to-mom-by-sweta-vikram/ https://booksbywomen.org/writing-well-thanks-to-mom-by-sweta-vikram/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2016 07:51:22 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=17380 There was always a distance between my mother and my writing. For the longest time, she rarely read what I wrote. It bothered me a lot. And I often drowned in bitterness about it. When on Friday, May 30, 2014, I was invited to do one of my biggest literary readings in NYC at KGB […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/writing-well-thanks-to-mom-by-sweta-vikram/feed/ 1 17380 How Writing a Book Taught Me the Pleasures of Cooking https://booksbywomen.org/how-writing-a-book-taught-me-the-pleasures-of-cooking/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-writing-a-book-taught-me-the-pleasures-of-cooking/#respond Mon, 15 Aug 2016 22:20:49 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16197 For the first 27 years of my life I didn’t cook much. Once I got married, Søren, my husband, did most of the cooking at home. I could follow a recipe if I needed to, but I couldn’t just look in the fridge as my husband could and put a meal together. I was never […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-writing-a-book-taught-me-the-pleasures-of-cooking/feed/ 0 16197 The Impact of Yoga on Writing https://booksbywomen.org/the-impact-of-yoga-on-writing/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-impact-of-yoga-on-writing/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2015 22:13:48 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14103 Wet Silence was a book I wrote before I lost my mother or did a yoga teacher training. Wet Silence was a book I wrote at a time when I would show up to yoga classes during times when I needed clarity with my writing, career, or life in general. But, my world shook and changed after my […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/the-impact-of-yoga-on-writing/feed/ 1 14103 DESI GIRLS, Stories by Indian Women Writers Abroad https://booksbywomen.org/desi-girls-stories-by-indian-women-writers-abroad/ https://booksbywomen.org/desi-girls-stories-by-indian-women-writers-abroad/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:08:03 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13499 I am often asked why my anthologies include solely stories by women. One reason is that women’s achievements are never purely personal. Also, we continue to work phenomenally harder than men to qualify for equal recognition in many walks of life. In this day and age, women are still subjected to prejudice, violence, poorer resources […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/desi-girls-stories-by-indian-women-writers-abroad/feed/ 3 13499 When a “spicy” Indian storyteller goes looking for inspiration… https://booksbywomen.org/spicy-indian-storyteller-goes-looking-inspiration/ https://booksbywomen.org/spicy-indian-storyteller-goes-looking-inspiration/#respond Wed, 12 Nov 2014 05:00:40 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12571 Earlier this year, my writer friend, Leah Zibulsky, invited me to one of her creative nonfiction readings on the lower east side. There were four, smart, sassy storytellers presenting that evening. As I heard Leah and her comrades share their dating stories at Dixon Place in NYC, I whispered to the woman on my left, […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/spicy-indian-storyteller-goes-looking-inspiration/feed/ 0 12571 The Gatekeeper https://booksbywomen.org/the-gatekeeper-by-sweta-vikram/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-gatekeeper-by-sweta-vikram/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:34:50 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12295 On the morning of Friday, May 30, my husband and I got a call from India: my mother was in critical condition and hospitalized in New Delhi. I thought it was a bad joke because (a) My Mom wasn’t sick. I had barely spoken with Mom two days ago and promised to cook, Kalam Polow, a […]

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