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  1. Growing up, my mother could answer any homework question I had. She knew everything.
    I didn't learn the truth until I was a senior in high school. What she told me that day changed how I understood everything she'd done for me.

    It was a sacrifice I never saw, happening in moments I'll never remember.
    Sometimes the greatest acts of love are the ones that happen in silence.

    #Education #MothersLove #ImmigrantExperience #Family #Sacrifice
    medium.com/@AngieMangino/my-mo

  2. Identity, tradition, modernity & ambition collide in Mumbai’s elite. Indian writer Devika Rege’s novel Quarterlife made me reflect on my 1980s US immigrant life and the search for belonging across cultures. A novel that captures both the personal and the political.
    Read my essay with my personal reflections here:
    krishinasnani.substack.com/......
    #Literature #CulturalReflection #ImmigrantExperience #GlobalLiterature