6/10/2023 0 Comments Adult stories in punjabiI began wondering about the drawbacks of community for the people who don’t always benefit from its cultural parameters. I remember standing outside the Southall train station on the first day of summer wearing a short denim skirt and a man shouting at me from his car and pointing to my bare legs and then at the temple in the distance. Each time I visited, I was torn between wishing I could stay and also being relieved to return to my simpler and less complicated life in East Anglia. But as a modern young woman, I felt stifled as well. I found it so welcoming, this Indian enclave in England where the customs were familiar to me. Southall was such a fascinating place where traditions were preserved and community bonds formed an integral infrastructure of support for migrants. While Jaswal’s Southall is fictional, and in many ways very contrived, she actually found the inspiration for her novel during a stay in the place where she experienced real conflicting feelings and demands on her as a young Punjabi woman. Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Guignol's Band I & II John Sommerfield: Trouble in Porter Street Pamela Hansford Johnson: This Bed Thy Centre
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