About Tanuja Desai Hidier: Tanuja Desai Hidier is an Indian-American writer. She won the 1995 James Jones Literary Prize for Tale of a Two-Hearted Tiger.
Believe it or not, Dimple–and I believe it–I am just a regular person who has decided to be who I am in life. That's all. That's how you make your life magical–you take yourself into your own hands and rub a little. You activate your identity. ...
She was right. After all, if she herself had wondered whether she was Indian enough -- she, who had always been to me a sort of epitome of Indian -- then who could be? Who could claim the sole right or way to an identity?
