Q: In the small village in India you write about, there is intolerance for independent women and horrific punishments are doled out for those who do not follow the rules created by the men. But I also had older memories of relatives describing a historic event that came to be known as the Bombay Riots, which happened in the early 1990s.
The first and most immediate was a series of articles in the New York Times written by Ellen Barry, which described life in Indian villages, specially the lives of rural women and the endemic corruption among the police etc. Video Recording of Book Nation Book Club Honor discussion with Thrity Umrigar HERE Q & A with Thrity UmrigarĪ: There were two sources of inspiration.
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