Walking and biking help me when I have trouble formulating a narrative thread. But, as a night owl, I find most of my scribbling happens late at night before a deadline rather than when the birds are gently chirping! Ideally, I love writing in the quiet, velvety pre-dawn period or around the time the sun is coming up, just before the world is awake and people are emailing, messaging, or calling. While there are many different kinds of love featured in the book, it centers the power of romantic love to bridge differences that are politically used to divide and rule. The book was harrowing to read for lots of reasons, but underlying it is a message of hope about the redemptive power of love.
It centers on a blossoming relationship between two people across religious divides in the run-up to the irresponsible and catastrophic partition of India by the British, which led to the death and forced displacement of millions of people-including both sides of my family. I last remember publicly crying while reading The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti. There are too many to mention since I have a sensitive heart! Any book that is well-written and has a sad narrative twist is guaranteed to make me shed tears. Overall, the writing that I find most satisfying tends to excavate feelings and emotions, has a spiritual aspect, and is written by someone who sees with the eye of the heart. There’s currently an exhibition running at the Morgan Library and Museum with pages of the original manuscript! Saint-Exupéry started drafting Le Petit Prince in Manhattan, and finished writing and illustrating it in Northport, Long Island. I recently found out The Little Prince is actually a New Yorker. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.” It’s quite simple: one sees clearly only with the heart. My favorite quote from it-one that continues to inspire me off the page-is: “Here is my secret. It grapples with themes such as friendship, love, loss, loneliness, innocence, capitalism, spirituality, and the heart. But Saint-Exupéry’s book, which on the surface is a children’s story, works at a much deeper level and feels nourishing. Like other children, I consumed books by Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, the Nancy Drew and Sweet Valley High series, as well as the classics. Any writer who influenced you growing up?Īntoine de Saint-Exupéry planted the deepest seeds with his book The Little Prince. I also love the ritual of going to a coffee shop and gently inhaling and sipping a fragrant latte.Ģ. I find the smell of both earthy spices and floral notes grounds me in my body. I love chai with cinnamon, cardamon, and ginger, or a rose tea.
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She shone the spotlight on an iconic Brooklyn staple serving to bridge two cultures in “ When Your Jewish Deli Is Run by Muslims.” After frequently visiting a Bangladeshi food cart vendor who has been away for almost forty years from his homeland, Syma asked in “ Coming Home:” “Is ‘home’ still ‘home’, or is it a foreign country, a land full of strangers?” In “ Love Bridges Religious Divides for Two Desi Dancers“, she explored how the dancing partnership between a Muslim and a Hindu blossomed into a Bollywood romance.Ĭan I say both? Tea roots me in both my ancestral and cultural heritage. Syma Mohammed is a 2018 Open City Fellow.
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