Interview with Simrann Keshwanii

About the Author

Simrann Keshwanii, 20, is a final year literature student at the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi and the Founder of a start-up, Born Of a Million Thoughts, that deals in on-ground social activism. She plans on changing the world, one word at a time, for words are mirrors and swords.

About the Book

Becoming Assiya is the story of a misplaced Syrian refugee and her trial with a past of blood, wounds, war, doubt and hatred and the troublesome hope of a better tomorrow. The woman’s journey encompasses through the landscape of Wartime Syria, through her mother’s journal and the rebuilding of a Post War identity for a land washed with blood, and what it meant to be alive, stuck in the middle with no identity. Identity and Struggle, two complex concepts intermingle in this book and intersect at a common point, that of finding yourself.