On the Outside Looking Indian
How My Second Childhood Changed My Life
From one of the writers on Schitt’s Creek and The Sex Lives of College Girls – a deeply funny and heartfelt memoir of a young woman, the product of a strict upbringing by conservative Indian parents, who decides to go on a Ram-Singha, her Indian version of the rumspringa, and learns how to dance, swim, drive, travel, and play in order to be happy.
Rupinder Gill was raised under the strict rules of her parents' Indian upbringing. While her friends were practicing their pliés, having slumber parties, and spending their summers at camp, Rupinder was cleaning, babysitting her siblings, and watching hours on end of American television. But at age 30, Rupinder realized how much she regretted her lack of…
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May 1, 2012After graduating high school as the class valedictorian, Rupinder studied Arts at the University of Toronto and she is now a television publicist. Her writing has been published in the National Post and on McSweeneys' website (not to mention that her work has appeared in several editions of hand-bound primary school poetry anthologies). She wrote for Barnes & Noble's teen blog Spark Life until she was fired for not understanding the subtle nuances of the LOL.
