Jhumpa's World: 🌍 Between Tongues and Homes

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Across
  1. 2. – 🇮🇹📚🖊️ The country where Lahiri found a new voice in a new language.
  2. 4. – 🏙️📍🇮🇳 City of roots, memory, and heat; now called Kolkata.
  3. 5. – 📏💌🖋️ Structured and sweet—Lahiri explores these in Italian.
  4. 8. – ⚖️🌗🧩 Living between two identities, two homes, two truths.
  5. 9. – 🗣️🧠🔁 Living in translation, thinking in layers.
  6. 10. – 👗✨🇮🇳 Worn with grace—often passed down between generations.
  7. 11. – 🧕🏽🌏🧳 Longed for, imagined, sometimes never seen.
  8. 12. – ✍️🌸📖 Lahiri's new title after writing in Italian.
  9. 13. – 🥭☀️😋 A fruit soaked in summer and memory.
  10. 15. – 🍚🍴🏠 A simple food, a powerful symbol of culture + comfort.
  11. 16. – 🧠🗣️💭 You’ll find them translating words and emotions—title of her famous collection.
  12. 18. – 🐣📘❓ A name given, a name questioned.
  13. 19. – 👩‍👦💬🏠 The mom who never forgets where she came from—even while adapting.
Down
  1. 1. – 🌐📝💡 Not just switching words, but switching meaning.
  2. 3. – 🏡🗣️🎶 The sound of home—her family’s native language.
  3. 6. – 🌍🚫🏡 Not just physical distance—sometimes, it’s emotional too.
  4. 7. – 🧾🔠💡 Title that explores what our names say about who we are.
  5. 8. – 🌎👣👜 People scattered across the globe—connected by origin.
  6. 14. – 🤐🔇💔 What fills the space between words.
  7. 17. – 🌱❌🧭 Floating between cultures with no clear "home."