Thrity Umrigar

Thrity Umrigar is an Indian-American journalist, critic, and novelist. Quotes Writing was my way to make sense of the world outside and inside my home. Despite the recollections of the adults in my life, I don't think I was a terribly articulate child. Writing was a way to give wings to the inchoate emotions and feelings inside of me. On writing in “An interview with Thrity Umrigar” in BookBrowse (2017 Jul 11) I always share this advice with my writing students: Tell the story of one person so deeply and completely, that in the act of going deep into that one person, something magical happens, and it becomes a universal story. On her teaching process in “INTERVIEWS: Thrity Umrigar” in BookPage (January 2012) I think I was politicized at age five, once I started noticing the beggars on the streets, and children my age who had to rummage through dumpsters looking for food. But since I grew up in a middle-class milieu where we were always told that "that's just how things are," it never occurred to me that the social order could be changed, much less that I could play a role in changing it. It was only in my teenage years that I understood things about class and inequity and how there was nothing inevitable about it. **On when she became politicized in "AN INTERVIEW WITH THRITY UMRIGAR" in BookSlut (January 2012) We often hear all this rhetoric of “spare the rod and spoil the child,” discipline and punishment, and I just don’t believe in that. In all my years I haven’t come across an adult who, because they got an excess of love as a child, grew up to be a not-so-nice person. In fact, I believe exactly the opposite is true. And this isn’t rocket science, but I think that parents for understandable reasons sometimes forget that… On what inspired her to write a children’s book in "Interview with local author Thrity Umrigar" (Heights Libraries; 2018 Sep 11) External links Category:Asian Americans Category:Indian Americans Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Journalists from the United States Category:Literary critics Category:LGBT people Category:Living people Category:People from Mumbai