In this episode of the Yodakin Podcast, Publisher Arpita Das is in conversation with renowned Malayalam author B.M. Zuhara about her book ‘Dreams of a Mappila Girl’ and Fehmida Zakeer, a brilliant translator. Among other things, the three talk about Zuhara’s childhood and her childhood home, what it means to grow up as a woman who asks many questions, the familial critique and backlash Zuhara had to face when publishing her literary works as well as the intoxicating cooking smells engulfing the air in her childhood home.

A celebrated award-winning Malayalam author pens her memoir of growing up in a unique community of Kerala. The memoir is translated by one of the foremost translators of Kerala.

Buy it here: https://www.amazon.in/Dreams-Mappila-Girl-Memoir/dp/9354792804

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The opening song is 'Typewriter' by Marc Taboel via Epidemic Sound.

This episode has been produced and edited by Srishti Khare.