I believe that if you are literate, all literature that you expose yourself to is your heritage to claim - Bharati Mukherjee

It meant that anyone with a brown face in cities like Toronto, Vancouver was fair game for physical harassment as well as verbal harassment on the street. And so, you know, there were incidents every day. And I was a victim of many such incidents of not being served in stores or being roughed up by teenagers in blue jeans overalls in subway - on subway platforms or being, you know, thrown out of lobbies of fancy hotels if my white husband wasn't near me or being given secondary examination in airports or - racial profiling…

I was born into a class that did not live in its native language. I was born into a city that feared its future, and trained me for emigration.

My theme is the making of new Americans