novel, The Tiger’s Daughter. As Mukherjee remembers him in an interview given to Canadian Fiction Magazine, he was “an extraordinary man… very much the benevolent patriarch” who “wanted the best for his daughters. And to him, the ‘best’ meant intellectually fulfilling lives”1 Bina Mukherjee, though not as impactful as Sudhir Mukherjee, was also a key influence in Bharati Mukherjee’s life. During these times, Bharati Mukherjee would go to school in fear, often seeing middle-class girls/women being humiliated…
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