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Interviews:
Check out Ten Questions with Pooja Makhijani
on Exxie's Book Lounge, Veronica Bond's (AKA 21st Century Fox at Bookslut)
fantastic book blog. Listen to Pooja on KPFA's Hard Knock Radio: A Talk Show for the Hip-Hop Generation. (Skip ahead to 19:15.) Read a Q&A with Pooja and a recap of Pooja's event with
the Bay Area chapter of Indus Women Leaders. Read an
interview with Pooja on Rediff.com. She chats about religion, writing, storytelling, race and Bollywood.
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Pooja in the News:
Pooja's short story "How Does My Garden Grow" from the February 2005 issue of Kahani was referenced - though without a title or a byline - in The San Jose Mercury News:
"In one issue, there's a universally themed story about seasons and gardening that describes vegetables that Mom will turn into a cheesy paneer with bell peppers and spaghetti with tomato sauce."
Read How Does My Garden Grow. (Pages 3-4)
Subscriptions to Kahani are $20 for four issues and $35 for eight.
Pooja on Mary Anne Mohanraj's story collection Bodies in Motion in SFGate.com:
"While other writers have explored the angst around immigrants and marriage, and the struggle between generations, where Mohanraj really scores is the 'exquisite' prose with which she describes sexual desire and college relationships, says author Pooja Makhijani, editor of Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America. 'She seems to really 'get' young adult sex and sexuality,' says Makhijani, who like Mohanraj grew up on the East Coast with immigrant parents."
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Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America
Watch Pooja and Under Her Skin contributors Judith Chalmer, Lisa Drostova, and Patricia Goodwin read! (At The Center for New Words in Cambridge, MA. Webcast produced by WGBH Forum Network.)
"A stunning and thought-provoking book... I don’t know if I could think of a better book to keep in a classroom." - Young Adult Books Central
"This is a ground-breaking book... Share this rainbow of revelations with a young woman in your life." - The Courier-Post
"...the unvarnished truth in a clear and courageous voice."
- DesiJournal
"Women experience race in many ways and in Under Her Skin we’re given a fulfilling look at how it has affected these twenty women, inspiring us to think about our own racially charged lives."
- BookSlut.com
"Beautifully written."
- Chicago Tribune
"ELLE Recommends... Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America, an essay collection edited by Pooja Makhijani, offers a rich-hued tapestry of writers who address the racially tinged issues that colored their childhood lives and beyond—questions of identity, oppression, internment, family dislocation, the leading of double lives, and the forging of against-the-odds friendships—from known voices such as Esmeralda Santiago (When I Was Puerto Rican) and lesser-knowns such as Faith Adiele, Thailand's first black Buddhist nun."
- Elle Magazine
"A collection to share with your
daughter—your sister, your cousin, even your mother. Thoughtful and
eye-opening, this collection by women from many backgrounds recalls
childhood experiences on when and how the question of race impacts a
young girl’s life. That sense of "Oh, my goodness-that was my life!"
both resonates and overwhelms." - AsianWeek
"Buy at least three copies of her book: one for the home, to be constantly reminded of our human frailties, and two copies for friends and family." - India in New York
Read the
introduction.
Buy the book NOW! |
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"School Lunch" from Women Who Eat:
"In one of the sweetest essays, New York writer
Pooja Makhijani recalls a childhood spent swapping the traditional
Indian lunches her mother packed for the processed school lunches
other, 'luckier' kids bought."
- Seattle Weekly
"Delightful
authors include... Pooja Makhijani, who longs to swap her fresh
raisin bread and warm tamarind-infused lentil soup for chicken
nuggets, pizza bagels or Hostess cupcakes."
- USA Today
"The most
successful pieces... Pooja Makhijani recalls how she traded the aloo
tikis her mother packed for lunch (recipe included) for a newly
arrived immigrant classmate's more acceptably American fare."
- Publishers' Weekly
Read an Excerpt of "School Lunch".
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