Excerpted with permission from Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, Mira Jacob, Bloomsbury.
‘Good Talk’: A graphic memoir probes what it means to grow up as a brown woman in America
An excerpt from Mira Jacob’s ‘memoir in conversations’.
Reading
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1Lessons from India’s sex worker activists on surviving USAID freeze
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2‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh
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3From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers
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4‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism
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5The psychology of making a change to your life – and sticking with it
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6How to move on from feeling stuck in life
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7‘Superboys of Malegaon’ director Reema Kagti: ‘A film that celebrates the magic of cinema’
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8Sunday book pick: ‘We Do Not Part’ by Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
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9Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans
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10Perumal Murugan’s intimate look into the lives of his college students from small-town Tamil Nadu
