"You either do it quietly and describe the Indian community in half a dozen poems or you think sod it, and go all out. The most Indian way I could think of was to do monologues and voices."
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Daljit Nagra
Daljit Nagra (born 1966) is a British poet of Indian ancestry whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover!, was published in February 2007.
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