culture shock

culture shock

no more mangoes

finding my way back home

on returning to the writing life

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Pranay Somayajula
Jul 09, 2022
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Before I was a writer, I was a plagiarist.

Looking back, this isn’t exactly shocking—I’ve been a reader ever since my infantile arms were strong enough to hold up a book on their own, and growing up as I did without many friends my age, the fairly solitary existence of my early childhood was made markedly less solitary …

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