When one of the widows finds a book of sexy stories in English and shares it with the class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories. When her father’s death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a “creative writing” course at the community center in the beating heart of London’s close-knit Punjabi community.īecause of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh widows who show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not the art of short-story writing. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she’s spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub.
See /privacy for more information.A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women’s lives at all ages-a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls. If you can’t make it feel free to send your thoughts and even your questions to us on Whatsapp at +447715 408831 You can register to attend at /abc4/ the link is also in the show notes. Join us for our next live event and taping on Sunday, 28th March at 4:00 pm UK time, where we’ll be getting stuck into Through The Leopards Gaze by Njambi McGrath. These are women who have spent their lives in the shadows of fathers, brothers and husbands, being dutiful, raising children and going to temple, but whose inner lives are as rich and fruitful as their untold stories. The story then picks up and becomes about loneliness, desire and sexuality within the group. She quickly learns that these women are illiterate and have their own way of learning to read and write. The story follows a young Punjabi feminist called Nikki, who takes what she believes to be a creative writing job at her local temple. This week we’re discussing Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal, narrated by Meera Syal.
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