Last week India’s prime minister launched a campaign to clean up India and a BBC radio programme invited me on to discuss the topic. I also received an email from a commissioning editor for a comment piece on why the campaign was doomed to fail and I turned it down.
In 2012 I published a travelogue about the Indian railways and since then I’ve increasingly been approached by the British press to write about issues that centre not on food, travel or trains, but on Indian women, despite the fact that I was born in Norfolk, grew up in Hull, Sheffield and Birmingham, went to university in Leeds, and have lived in London for ten years with a one-year stint in India aged nine.
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