Jyoti Patel with Nihal Arthanayake
The Penguin Podcast
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The Importance of Gujarati Food in My Life
I feel like I have a lot of those values and traditions in me in ways that I don't I'm not even aware of really. It's only when I come back and I think about it and I feel like certainly something that's very Indian about me and that I perform very much is the Gujarati language but also the food element. Have you ever questioned how Asian you are or am I being too thisy here? No you're 100% on the money with that and that's actually where this whole novel came from. You know I wanted to explore that that feeling through a fictional lens of these two characters one growing up in 70s and 80s and then one who we meet
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