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Neetha Naidu

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Neetha Naidu is a Gen X mom, memoirist, and growing indie author who believes in telling the truth—awkward, emotional, and hilarious as it may be. Raised in a traditional South Indian household, she did everything the “good Indian girl” was expected to do: obey the rules, get married, move abroad, raise a family... and stay quiet.

But life had other plans.

After navigating arranged marriage, immigration, motherhood, divorce, and the chaos of midlife reinvention, Neetha began writing the story she never got to read growing up. Her debut memoir, The Good Indian Girl: Breaking Barriers, Bridging Generations, explores the generational shift between obedience and self-awareness, guilt and growth, silence and self-expression.

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Reflection on a life honoring family, country and herself, crafted like a conversation that reveals true value and worth. A uplifting and funny read!"
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G.K. Chesterton
“What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry — but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own sceptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.”
G.K. Chesterton




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