Dear Shivam,

 

 This is a modified version of a biog I sent to Jeet Thayil.  Hope it will do.

 

My silence at present is not due to shyness but because I have too much on hand to dare tackle anything further. I promise I will become much more visible by the end of the month, when two of my biggest projects come to an end. Till then, bear with me.

 

Jane Bhandari 

 

  

I was born in Edinburgh in 1944. I came to India 38 years ago. It would be hard to get rid of me now: the Mumbai culture - with a Punjabi bias - has made me semi-Asian. The European beneath the patchy Indian veneer has diminished somewhat over the years; I am comfortable with this duality.  Our children are true Mumbaikers.

 

My writing has nothing to do with being Western, or a Punjabi graft: it is everything to do with the way I am, which crosses all cultural lines.  I think most women have a bawdy sense of humour, which they hide from their men. It's our secret weapon. At sixty-one I still find myself debating the phallic significance of microphones, and giggling at the unexpected humour of life. I write about it too, for the sheer pleasure of it.

 





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