Hello and

this is a show for instance kitchen.

I'm Francis Foster.

I'm Constantine Kissen.

And this is a show for you

if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

Our brilliant guest today is a writer, editor and podcaster and she is a sub-editor of Aereo magazine.

I own Italian, welcome to Sh really look forward to. Tell us a little bit about who are you, how are you where you are, what has been the journey through life that brings you here?

So I grew up in Pakistan in the Parsi community.

My father was an Indian-born Parsi who moved to Pakistan in 60s.

My mother was Scottish and then I moved here to the UK in my early teens and I went to school here and university.

I did a PhD in English literature and I was an academic until 2006 when

for some unknown reason I decided to leave academe and go and live in Buenos Aires and teach Tango.

And for about 11 years I dance Tango, I taught Tango and I had a very popular Tango blog and so I would also tour and give readings and advice and things and I've since made that blog into two books on Tango and then I went to India for two years,

2017 to 2019.

And I've begun work on a new book which is

memoirs and little biographies of mixed-race Indians.

And in the meantime, I switched,

when I went to India,

I knew that I wouldn't be able to just to teach Tango for a living full time anymore.

So I switched over to becoming an editor.

I met Helen Pluckrose online and I got involved with Ario. And then later I got

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