Dimple Bangalore

About

My writing practice began ten years ago, as an everyday cathartic process of self-discovery. While that remains true, my year at the Royal College of Art (RCA) has expanded my practice into the realm of literary non-fiction as a means to critique oppression that appears in various forms: patriarchy, misogyny, colonialism, religious extremism, and psychological oppression.

My writing is rooted in the idea that the self, or even the other, cannot be profoundly understood without comprehending the critical context it comes with – so, my writing explores this dynamism of the self and its context.

I am currently working on a book that originated during my time at the RCA. The book is an emotional and critical telling of my mother’s life. As her daughter and narrator, I explore her evolving self through memory, family archives, conversations with family members, and by situating her story within its familial, cultural, societal, and historical context. Written in the years following her death, it is a story that transcends generations in its exploration and understanding of women’s lives in a middle-class family in Bangalore, South India. It could also be a story of every woman, anywhere in the world, who is breaking barriers and ancestral patterns that no longer serve them.

Dimple is a writer based in London. Her writing practice is inspired by a life lived traversing and challenging systemic inequities—first as a child raised by a single mother, experiencing the inadequacies of an inequitable post-colonial education system in India, and later through a decade of work in education non-profits across India and the United States. Her writing is ingrained with the belief that the personal is political, whether we choose to see it or not.

She can be reached at bangalore.dimple@gmail.com.