Jyoti Patel with Nihal Arthanayake
The Penguin Podcast
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The Unmasking of Secrets
The identity of the characters and the nuance of being British Geordi Kenyan has always been there throughout. I think it definitely happened simultaneously for me to create sort of an authentic family and an authentic story their identity needed to be very much on the page from the beginning. What about your own connection to India because it's almost a connection that's interrupted by Africa? Yeah it's a very interesting question actually because my family as far as I know we don't really have any close family or friends in Gujarat. We have some distant family I would know their names but for me my experience of India was more so of Bangalore which is in the south. And what if the distance that Avani feels
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