My Journey With My Mother: A Memoir
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Chapter 11: Breaking the Language Barrier Through Diagrams in Mexico: My Journey Without My Mother—A Memoir
Mexico City. 1984. When the plane wheels touched down on the tarmac of Mexico City’s Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez, a…
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Chapter 10: Mexico Chalo and My Professor Who Changed My Life: My Journey Without My Mother
By Upendra Mishra Boston – As my journey to Mexico finally came into focus at the end of 1983, the…
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My Journey Without My Mother, Part 9: Of a Mother’s Necklace, a Spanish Book, and a Photograph That Traveled the World – A Memoir
By Upendra Mishra BOSTON—I don’t exactly remember what triggered my decision to leave Allahabad University, where I had just enrolled…
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My Journey Without My Mother, Part 8: When Love Spoke Hindi, Dreams Whispered in English and White Dupatta in Allahabad
By Upendra Mishra BOSTON—Finishing 12th grade with the first class, or Intermediate College as we called in Uttar Pradesh, was…
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My Journey Without My Mother, Part 7: Trysts on the Stairs, Destiny’s Irony, and the First Kiss: A Memoir
By Upendra Mishra BOSTON — Just before my high school exams, my aunt came to stay with us from our…
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My Journey Without My Mother, Part 6: My First Crush and the Biggest Lie That I Lived With My Mother: A Memoir
BOSTON – After my uncle upgraded our living quarters in Sitapur and I graduated to the 9th grade, my teenage…
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My Journey Without My Mother, Part 5: To the Hustle and Bustle of Sitapur and Topping Junior High – A Memoir
By Upendra Mishra A New Chapter Begins BOSTON — Moving with my Budhawa Baba from Tadipar to Pakuli was both…
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My Journey Without My Mother, Part 4: The Joy, the Snakes and the Mahabharata– A Memoir
By Upendra Mishra BOSTON — Living with my Budhawa Baba in Tadipar during my sixth grade at a brand-new school…
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My Journey Without My Mother, Part 3: Leaving the Village at Age 11 – A Memoir
By Upendra Mishra BOSTON—My life in the village lasted until the fifth grade, possibly until I was about 10 or…
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My Journey Without My Mother Part-2: A Memoir
By Upendra Mishra BOSTON—The day I learned that my real mother had passed away when I was about two years…
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