It was the protuberance in the middle of her nose, a face-reader told her, that made her a writer. moreover for Anita Rau Badami, it all started at the age of 17 with a work fair -- when she wanted to purchase more books than she had cash for. Her father gave her a loan, provided she paid him back within a month And that was when she sent disclosed her first article. Now, after a certain quantity of 150 pieces in newspapers, literary journals, and children's magazines in India and Canada, the 33-year-old writer has published her first novel, Tamarind Mem (Penguin), the tart-sweet memoir of a
