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Jai Chakrabarti : A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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The I Thou Versus the I It Relationship

I wanted to play around with this notion of the nanny and see if they were, if they were sort of in the Indian context. I was familiar with how that might be imagined in a Brooklyn apartment. It was taking some of these concepts that I'd grown up with, and seeing how it would be like in a very different cultural context. Both are stories to tell and both were important for me to explore.

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