The Indian-Irish poet on the Mahabharata retelling that inspired her to write, Arundhati Roy’s courage, and the poetry of Lucille Clifton My earliest reading memory My father was a sailor and my mother a teacher. They were both voracious readers. I was lucky enough to come from a home full of b...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/06/nikita-gill-i-read-flowers-in-the-attic-too-young-someone-should-have-stopped-me)