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Michelle Bambawale

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Michelle Bambawale spent her childhood in a Goan Catholic family in Pune, India. Since then, she has lived in three places in India and in three countries around the world raising her own nomadic family. Over the years, she has contributed to numerous publications in India and UAE. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Michelle moved to her ancestral home in Siolim in North Goa, which inspired her debut book, ‘Becoming Goan’. It is a contemporary coming home story, published by Penguin Random House in December 2023, and describes the road to her roots in her provocative, tongue- in-cheek style.