Single Parenting with Pooja Makhijani Brown Mom with Raakhee Mirchandani

Pooja Makhijani is a writer, an editor, an author, a baker, a photographer and a mama to an 8-year-old horse loving little lady. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Cut, Epicurious and Eater, among many other publications.


She’s an old friend, and a dear friend, and our FaceTime quarantine dates brought me much needed joy, eye rolls and laughs during this time we’ve been socially distant. And in this episode of Brown Mom, I talk to my pal Pooja about pandemic parenting and being a single South Asian mama.


We also talk about food, daughters, reading, writing and aachar. We also compare notes on growing up Sindhi, something I don’t get to talk about with a lot of people.


We also chat about some pieces she's written that I love; here they are: 


1: https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/the-lipstick-i-wore-to-my-divorce.html


2: https://catapult.co/stories/edible-how-breadmaking-helped-me-during-my-divorce


3: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2015/10/14/postpartum-depressions-as-an-american-living-overseas/


4: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/parenting/divorce-single-mom.html


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