“It can take some fancy footwork to grow up Indian in Australia…We’re a visible minority, but to date, there’s been little in the arts to reflect our unique reality of shape-shifting between two cultures.”
— Aarti Betigeri, Canberra-based journalist
Black Inc. has announced the latest addition to its ‘Growing Up’ nonfiction anthology series is Growing Up Indian in Australia, to be edited by Canberra-based journalist Aarti Betigeri.
“It can take some fancy footwork to grow up Indian in Australia,” said Betigeri. “We’re a visible minority, but to date, there’s been little in the arts to reflect our unique reality of shape-shifting between two cultures.”
She also mentioned that “this book will speak to the experiences of those thousands of young Indian-Australians who spend their days trying to navigate that tricky terrain. It will make them laugh, commiserate, weep, cringe—and ultimately, realise that they’re part of a much wider shared experience than they might have thought existed.”
The anthology will be the eighth book in the life writing series that began with Growing Up Asian in Australia, edited by Alice Pung and released in 2008. The most recent book in the series, Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia, edited by Samantha Faulkner, was announced in June this year and will be published in 2024.
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