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Maya Kalaria

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Born

London, The United Kingdom

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https://www.mayakalaria.com

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Poetry, Spirituality, Self Help

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Arundhati Roy

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Member Since

November 2020

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Maya is an Indian Gujarati poet, speaker, trained mental health engagement worker and has worked as a manager and hypnotherapist.

Born in multicultural London to an Indian family and raised in the northern town of Barnsley, Maya sadly lost her mother to Leukaemia at the age of nine. This life event had a profound impact on her future path and she has since devoted much of her life to helping people make sense of grief. She speaks powerfully and eloquently about the related themes of misogyny, racism and the colonial trauma that she experienced as a result of her early life circumstances.

In this global moment of heightened scrutiny and action against racism and inequality, Maya is a formidable leader of the ‘uncomfortable conversations’. Sh ...more

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Average rating: 4.56 · 16 ratings · 7 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Half Woman Half Grief 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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