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On Fatness, Beauty, and Desire

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For Whom We Write

When a “diverse” writer pens a story with a “diverse” central character, is it enough? I argue not. The important missing piece is, for whom is the story being told.

Varsha Chitnis 8/3/23 Varsha Chitnis 8/3/23

On the Transnational Nature of My Book

Like my life, my teaching career, and my emotional connections, my fiction is infused with a strong sense of transnationalism.

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“I Never Want to Feel That Way Again”

This scene of me wailing unabashedly before a crowd of bemused folk trying to speculate the reason for such unceasing tears, became a moment of reckoning for me. In that instance, standing amid a confused and sympathetic crowd, I made a decision.

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Cultural Border

A cultural border attempts to force me into my box, the one I was supposed to be in, as defined by the same cultural border. Cultural border is the master’s tool.