An Interview With Asha Apradh
This interview transcript was first published in the print edition of Manushi Journal. (Issue-21, Mar-Apr 1984)
Asha, tell me about your family and your childhood.
I was born in a Sunni Muslim family. I live in a predominantly Hindu neighbourhood called Andevadi. My mother comes from a village called Panhala. She belongs to a peasant family. She is totally illiterate. No one in their family is educated. They work on their land. My father lost whatever land he had in a dispute with my uncle. My father worked as a book binder in a private company. He had studied upto BA and used to give tuitions to children of the neighbourhood. Hearing him teach them, I picked up a lot and could count upto 200 when I was about six years old. My father realised that I was bright so he wanted me to become something in life…