Shilpi Gowda
Class of 1992

Interview with KCBS, San Francisco
May 9, 2010

When I was in college, I spent a summer volunteering at an orphanage in south India.

I’ve always thought about what happened to those kids.

I’ve always wondered what happened to them when they went out into the world. I just became fascinated with the idea of fictionalizing a story around one of those children.

More.

Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda '92

Acknowledgments from Secret Daughter

The seed of this story was planted during a summer in college I spent as a volunteer at an orphanage in Hyderabad, India. For that experience and so many others, I thank the Morehead-Cain Foundation of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and also Child Haven International.

 

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