I mentioned my sister Haajima (Hajra) Degia a
few days ago in an entry on World Hijab Day.
Barbados Faces, an online magazine that highlights Barbadian women, did
a feature on her recently. The article
focuses on the severe obstacles she faced and overcame in her quest to live a
life outside of the norms of her Gujarati community and the significant
achievements, academic and professional, that she has attained with the help of
the Almighty.
I had penned a much longer entry that delves into the internal dynamics of the Gujarati community but decided to save it for another entry in the future. The entry is hard hitting and I know that Gujaratis here would find it offensive. Of course, what they feel or think is of no concern to me but I decided that it would be best to leave this mention of the Barbados Faces article as a standalone and present my commentary on Gujaratis in Barbados later. You can therefore look out for that at some point soon.
I had penned a much longer entry that delves into the internal dynamics of the Gujarati community but decided to save it for another entry in the future. The entry is hard hitting and I know that Gujaratis here would find it offensive. Of course, what they feel or think is of no concern to me but I decided that it would be best to leave this mention of the Barbados Faces article as a standalone and present my commentary on Gujaratis in Barbados later. You can therefore look out for that at some point soon.
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