Delhiwale: ‘Jagat mummy’
Hindustan TimesThe world is the size of each person’s head. The wider world might actually be familiar with Shree Kumari’s middle daughter, who took on her mother’s first name as her last name. Although Geetanajli Shree’s debut novel was titled Mai, Shree Kumari herself was always “mummy” to her five children. Lately, as a private joke within the family, she would mimic Geetanjali’s “Booker smile”—it was the smile that appeared in Geetanjali’s most circulated photo in 2022 after being awarded with the International Booker Prize for her novel Ret Samadhi, aka Tomb of Sand. Talking of her mother, the novelist compares her to “a beautiful tree in the garden, gentle shade and soft breeze.” One evening, Jayanti conducted a “pretend interview” with “mummy” in the drawing room, asking her, ‘Aapko kaisa laga ki aapki beti ki rachna ko Booker prize se nawaza gaya??
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