“As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.” WayWantWholeFightingGrewGrew UpTraditionIndiaWhole LifeTraditionalIndianVillageHousewife Author:Arundhati Roy
“I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.” IfsThinkingKindChildrenStoriesFallWonderGrowing UpGrowingGrewGrew UpIndiaFalling In LoveEastTalesChildren Growing UpGrowing Children Author:Salman Rushdie
“I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.” EndsTogetherJobsMotherPoorGrewGrew UpIndiaEducateOddsFamily TogetherOdds And Ends Author:Naveen Jain
“I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the headscarf. But what happened when I came here to the U.S. and the emergence of the Saudi and Iranian theologies in the world is that the headscarf became the hijab and the hijab is now the idea that is synonymous with headscarf.” WorldIdeasBornHappenedGrewGrew UpExpectationsIndiaTheologySaudisIranianEmergenceMuslim WomenHijab Author:Asra Nomani
“I grew up going around with family, camping and living in a very beautiful mountain valley, knowing the names of the mountains and the rivers. I think it's no accident that I ended up studying the geography of India and knowing the names of the mountains and the rivers and all of that. I loved it. I think it gives a sense of space and a can-do-ness that was very powerful.” ThinkingGivingBeautifulNamesCan DoSpacePowerfulKnowingStudyGrewMountainGrew UpRiversIndiaAccidentsValleysGeographyVery PowerfulVery BeautifulCamping Author:Diana L. Eck
“I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.” WorldBookGrewGrew UpIndiaTownsSmall Town Author:Mira Nair
“Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore.” WorldWayEnoughHomeWould BeAbleRichJourneyGrewSorrowIndiaAround The WorldTendernessInsectsRiceBeing Rich Author:Kiran Desai
“I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.” KidsAmericaYoungCultureCitiesNew YorkGrewMomGrew UpIndiaImmigrantsNew York CitySingle Mom Author:Padma Lakshmi