A Mother Is Born by Diksha Basu [Paperback]

This candid and humorous memoir-style reflection explores modern motherhood through Basu’s experiences raising two half-Indian daughters from infancy to school age. Blending everyday parenting absurdities with emotional honesty, she discusses postpartum depression, anxiety, panic, managing children’s artwork, sibling conflicts, and the challenge of unlearning and reshaping inherited family patterns. Rather than offering a prescriptive parenting manual, Basu shares relatable personal anecdotes and imperfect solutions that capture the complexities, frustrations and joys of raising children in contemporary life.