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Text by Shreya Ila Anasuya
Manjiri Indurkar’s first book, a memoir called It’s All in Your Head, M, is an intimate, intricate look at the relationship between abuse, trauma and mental health. It is a self-portrait that says so much about the world the author is from – an entire universe that emerges from one person’s story.
Excerpts from a conversation with Indurkar….
Photographed by Joshua Navalkar
Can you talk about working as a poet and a memoirist and how the forms influence you? How do they bleed into each other? Which do you enjoy more? Which comes easier to you?
Most of the time, I am able to find poetic influences in the dreariest of places. I will read some statistics, some data, and I will be able to visualise a verse in my mind. Which is to say that something as creative and stimulating as a memoir piece is bound to get the juices…