# Anita Rau Badami

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Anita Rau Badami - Can You Hear The Nightbird Call? - full

Anita Rau Badami moved to Canada from India in the early 1990s and took the literary world by storm. Her first novel, "Tamarind Mem" was a bestseller and her next one, "Hero's Walk", drew even more acclaim. Her latest novel tells the story of three women over a span of fifty years, from the partit…

Anita Rau Badami

Anita Rau Badami talks with Pamela about travelling by train through India, witnessing the violence that followed the assassination of Indira Ghani, and how her visual art intersects with her writing. Anita moved to Calgary in 1991 when her husband was pursuing a Master’s degree at the university.…

Quebec Book Day - Bonus Episode

In this special bonus episode, Linda collaborates with the Association of English-Language Publishers of Quebec (AELAQ) and the Quebec Writers' Federation (QWF) to draw attention to and celebrate Quebec Book Day (August 12th) by interviewing five authors about their four books (she says "four" auth…

Ep154 Growing Up With Stories with Anita Rau Badami

Anita Rau Badami talks about growing up in a family of gifted storytellers, how a mysterious white-haired woman from her childhood inspired Asha in Her Garden, and why persistence is one of a writer's greatest strengths. Anita Rau Badami’s first novel was the bestseller TamarindMem.  Her novels Th…

Anita Rau Badami on writing a character who can't stop wounding the people she loves

Nathan Maharaj spoke with Anita Rau Badami, author of novels including the Commonwealth Prize winning The Hero's Walk. Her new book is Asha in Her Garden. It's the story of a woman named Asha, who lives now in Montreal, but left Bangalore, India many years ago. We learn about her childhood, her chi…

ANITA RAU BADAMI + MATTHEW REID + MUNDY MCLAUGHLIN

On the Saturday September 12 edition of The Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet best-selling author Anita Rau Badami. an acclaimed Indian-Canadian novelist whose work explores family bonds, cultural identity, and the immigrant experience spanning India and Canada.  She moved to Canada in 1991 and is bes…

ANITA RAU BADAMI + MATTHEW REID + MUNDY MCLAUGHLIN

On the Saturday September 12 edition of The Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet best-selling author Anita Rau Badami. an acclaimed Indian-Canadian novelist whose work explores family bonds, cultural identity, and the immigrant experience spanning India and Canada.  She moved to Canada in 1991 and is bes…

Anita Rau Badami

The acclaimed and bestselling novelist Anita Rau Badami discusses her latest Asha in Her Garden (Knopf Canada, 2026), with Joseph Planta. Asha in Her Garden by Anita Rau Badami (Knopf Canada, 2026). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Asha in Her Garden Text of the intr…

A novel inspired by the death of a tree

Anita Rau Badami’s new novel, Asha in Her Garden, is her first in over a decade … and it all started with the striking image of a dying tree. On her seventieth birthday, Asha Mohan’s beloved backyard maple tree is cut down. As she watches it disappear, Asha begins to look differently at the life sh…

Sinful Sides - Discussions about Character with Gail Anderson-Dargatz

While sitting over supper with Karen Molson, the Executive Director of the Greenwood Centre and with the award-winning author, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Linda debates whether she should order fries or salad. What she wants is a few fries and a whole salad, to feel, as Anderson-Dargatz wryly observes, …