Hi Priyanka! I’m also a Kashmiri Pandit (and attorney from MI). I began your book the same week I had decided to learn Kashmiri. I connected to stories in your memoir, many of your stories in Kashmir and India mirrored a lot of the snippets my parents have shared with me over the years. Your book made me laugh, tear up, and re-fuel my desire to write down the stories and recipes my parents share with me so I can cherish and hopefully pass down. I saw so much of my family in your story, in all its bruises, humor, and love. Your book sits right alongside my journals and notes that are filled with sticky notes as I try to learn Kashmiri. Thank you for your work.
This is fantastic for beginning creative nonfiction writers and memoirists. I am one. I read your book first and then this. You’re funny and truthful and often all elbows and I recognize you. I don’t come to your writing first. I came across you on Instagram and as a desi I HAD to find out what you were about or at least the Instagram projection. Now, you’re part of my life! 🙏
I bought your book, gave it a 5-star rating and a positive review. I loved it.
It's disappointing, however, not to mention ironic, to see an intelligent woman who rails against stereotypes, resort to them herself in the very first paragraph – "Blonde and WASPy of course..."
I hear you! I should edit that “of course,” and say something about the establishment. Less stereotype than fact in that series of meetings - thanks for bringing this up.
Hi Priyanka! I’m also a Kashmiri Pandit (and attorney from MI). I began your book the same week I had decided to learn Kashmiri. I connected to stories in your memoir, many of your stories in Kashmir and India mirrored a lot of the snippets my parents have shared with me over the years. Your book made me laugh, tear up, and re-fuel my desire to write down the stories and recipes my parents share with me so I can cherish and hopefully pass down. I saw so much of my family in your story, in all its bruises, humor, and love. Your book sits right alongside my journals and notes that are filled with sticky notes as I try to learn Kashmiri. Thank you for your work.
Aw thanks for sharing! We need more of our stories out there!
This is fantastic for beginning creative nonfiction writers and memoirists. I am one. I read your book first and then this. You’re funny and truthful and often all elbows and I recognize you. I don’t come to your writing first. I came across you on Instagram and as a desi I HAD to find out what you were about or at least the Instagram projection. Now, you’re part of my life! 🙏
Thank you for this
DO IT
I love the prompt of collecting your best personal / family stories. I'm so curious what having that outlined and in one place will feel like.
For TV lols and feels: The Other Two (HBO), Extraordinary (Hulu), Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
It feels like a start! Ha! Hope it helps. and thanks for the recs :) i really gotta try some things.
I love all of this. Nobody wants this made me laugh, in case that’s your type
Thank you!
Oh I’m so glad to hear that it might be useful! Such a sweet note. - break a leg :)
I bought your book, gave it a 5-star rating and a positive review. I loved it.
It's disappointing, however, not to mention ironic, to see an intelligent woman who rails against stereotypes, resort to them herself in the very first paragraph – "Blonde and WASPy of course..."
I hear you! I should edit that “of course,” and say something about the establishment. Less stereotype than fact in that series of meetings - thanks for bringing this up.