Minal Hajratwala, author, "Leaving India"
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English - March 26, 2009 17:00 - 1 hour - 12.4 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsNews news saja india samma mumbai pakistan terrorist attacks aseem chhabra books south asia Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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SAJA presents a conversation with Minal Hajratwala, author of "Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents" - a wonderful nonfiction book you won't want to miss. Here's what Alice Walker (The Color Purple) had to say: "It is what I imagine India itself to be like: incomparable, sprawling, rich, surprising, very old and wise and forever capable of recreating itself, no matter where pieces of it land."
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