What is it to be a Punjabi girl writing in English?
Being a Punjabi Girl certainly didnt make things easier. Neither the Punjabi bit nor the girl bit. I could ask myself this question forever and still not understand it fully. It is slightly complex. The language aside, the mere act of writing can be made very difficult by circumstances. I was born and brought up in Amritsar which has only one bookshop (excluding the ones that sell textbooks and a few works of non-fiction). Isnt that strange for a big city like Amritsar? The environment is hardly conducive to reading and thinking, let alone writing. Elsewhere, outside Amritsar, outside Punjab, people my age were moving so fast that it made me breathless sometimes. I had to disappear into a vacuum to write. For me personally, there was no precedent, no infrastructure and no sense of possibility when it came to writing. I had to learn to stay in solitude and work hard. I was living alone in a series of rented rooms in different cities, working on rented computers, keeping no stable job fo
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