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Room to Fly
Cover collage: Padma Hejmadi - Cover design: Nola Burger
This transcultural memoir takes its shape and direction from a tenet of Japanese Sumi painting: If you paint a bird, give it space to fly. Padma Hejmadi explores the spaces surrounding different aspects of human experience across countries. The theme of each chapter below sums up the structure of the book:
| Chapter Title | Theme |
| 1. Glorious Illiteracy | illiteracy |
| 2. Wet Pavements | language |
| 3. Lines in the Dark | work (writing, photography visual art) |
| 4. Shifts, Journeys, Transformations | movement |
| 5. Singing Saints & Others | music |
| 6. Curve of the Mind | intelligence |
| 7. People Making Places Making People | landscape |
| 8. Bitter Gourd & Green Mango | decision |
| 9. Cessation and Continuity | decision |
Birthday Deathday and Other Stories
Cover design: Amiya Bhattacharya
Painting: “Thumri” by Nilima Sheikh
Most of the stories are set in India. Some are time-and-space sandwiches between India and other countries. Others overlap from earlier collections.
“Her gift is heritage to us all.” – Tillie Olsen.
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Birthday Deathday and Other Stories
First edition from England. Most of the stories are set in India. Some are time-and-space sandwiches between India and other countries. Others overlap from earlier collections.
“Her gift is heritage to us all.” – Tillie Olsen.
Other comments on the Reviews page.
Available at:
