🍲 What's your favourite cuisine?
Hana jaan (as Kawkab Khala would say),
Meeting and getting to know you in the eclectic neighbourhood of Golden Crescent has been a cathartic experience for me, to say the least. Growing up, feeling like my Indianness wasn't as celebrated as that girl's Americanness in those novels I clutched on to, the word 'representation' to me seemed like a farce. I wanted to see THE succulent chicken biryani being honoured in those pages. I wanted to see Shahrukh Khan and Rishi Kapoor movies' as normalised as Marvel references. And then, I came across your family's restaurant and the familiar aroma of 'mashed potato and paneer cheese, simmered in a tomato cream sauce, with fresh tandoori naan' made my heart break into an enthusiastic 'bhangra'.
Ms Jalaluddin, although I may not be able to relate to the experience of being an immigrant, Hana's bold voice is making me find my own.
Thanks for the free book! @atlanticbooks
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Ayushi.
[Image ID. Book placed in centre with headphones on top and a phone with the song 'Iktara' playing on the right. Background is a pink bedspread. Blog tour banner of 'Hana Khan Carries On' in pink. Readerly Gist below the banner. End ID.]
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