Guftagoo with Zakiya Farzana | ft Meri Maa Meri Gangster

Meri Maa Meri Gangster: A Reader’s Journey with Zakiya Farzana / What happens when a book slowly becomes a conversation with yourself?In this episode of Listen with Irfan, I sit down with my wife, Zakiya Farzana, who has recently finished reading Arundhati Roy’s Meri Maa Meri Gangster - the Hindi translation of Mother Mary Comes to Me.Rather than discussing the book as a conventional literary review, we talk about the experience of reading it: the stories that stayed with Farzana, the moments that moved or disturbed her, and the thoughts that emerged as she travelled through Roy’s deeply personal world.This is not a conversation about what the book is.It is about what the book does to a reader.Recorded and published on 28 August 2026, Delhi NCRCover: Irfan