Becoming Farah: A Life in Bombay, 1943-1986 by Farah Rustom. Published in 2023 by Notion Press Media Pvt Ltd, No. 50, Chettiyar Agaram Main Road, Vanagaram, Madras 600095. Pp: 264. Price: Rs 499.
Farah Rustom’s Becoming Farah: A Life in Bombay, 1943-1986 is an engaging and frank memoir of, as the title suggests, Farah’s life in Bombay before she migrated to the USA. The memories pour forth over these 43 years moving backward and forward in time rather than in chronological order which would have detracted from the charm of what she calls an "epistolary (written in the form on a......