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Becoming A Writer With SouthAsia Speaks

Becoming A Writer With SouthAsia Speaks

2022 Fellow Sanjana Ramachandran reflects on her year as a SAS Fellow and what it means to be a writer in South Asia

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I’ve been feeling strange ever since I’ve started to say “I’m a writer” to anyone who asks what I do. It is because that simple answer belies many complications. Foremost, fortunately, is a sense of satisfaction from having realized a dream that I thought, all my life, would be just that. Then there is quizzical anticipation about what will happen when …

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