May 09, 2008
Nikita Lalwani
From Guardian:
The Booker longlisted author of Gifted on Indian comics, shaping emotion through writing, and reading with a lazy eye.
What was your favourite book as a child and why?
The Borrowers. It mixed reality and fantasy so closely, and the characters' struggle for autonomy is similar to being a child in an adult world. All that delicious hoarding, and the painful ending when the Ratcatcher smokes the Borrowers out of their home - you didn't need to understand Holocaust metaphors to know that something horrific was going on.I also was a great fan of the Amar Chitra Katha series of Indian comics, in which epics like the Mahabarata became pictorial wonders - featuring Sadhus who meditated in dense forests for decades at a time, and chariot-riding Gods and Goddesses in constant dialogue with mortal counterparts. Luscious stuff.
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What a nice surprise: a Sindhi Hindu distinguishing herself (and how!) in the arts as well as business. I am of course forwarding this to every Sindhi Hindu I know, including the proprietors of an "Indian" restaurant (they are actually from Larkana and Sukkur) here in Brisbane who indeed share Ms Lalwani's surname.
Posted by: Mac | May 12, 2008 1:01:52 AM
Nope. Lalwani is, they tell me, alas, the Sindhi Hindu equivalent of Johnson. But they are delighted to claim a connection, however tenuous, and indeed invite me around to meet some recent arrivals from Pakistan and discuss their illustrious perhaps-relative.
Posted by: Mac | May 12, 2008 1:03:58 AM
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