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Maya Kalaria

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London, The United Kingdom

Website

https://www.mayakalaria.com

Genre

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: 4.53 · 17 ratings · 7 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Half Woman Half Grief 4.53 avg rating — 17 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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Maya Kalaria wants to read Colonialism and Modern Social Theory by Gurminder K Bhambra	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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Maya Kalaria and 50 other people liked Sadie E 's review of Mongrel: "Update: I finally finished it. Can I give 0 stars? A load of pretentious slop masquerading as profound literary fiction. I feel like I survived some kind of psychological endurance test. WHAT WAS HAPPENING. Review: Me the entire time: Mongrel's like being " Read more of this review »
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Maya Kalaria rated a book it was amazing A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs by Gulchehra Hoja	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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Maya Kalaria rated a book it was amazing Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)	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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Maya Kalaria rated a book it was amazing When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà	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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Maya Kalaria rated a book it was amazing Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain by Zakia Sewell	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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