The effulgence of CURRY IS THICKER THAN WATER, Jasmine D’Costa’s first collection of stories, is so rewarding to read, so allegorical and at the same time, so philosophical, that it heralds the confidence I have in this young writer, who has laid down the geography of a narrative that is so gripping, as it introduces me, to the other broad, new ethnicity in Canada’s literary landscape; and it is made all the more effulgent, by its multi-cultural point of view.
                                                                                 -Austin Clarke
                                                                                                Winner of The Giller Prize and
                                                                                                                                Commonwealth Literary Prize

Jasmine D'Costa

Our life’s narratives are neither singular nor linear and like everyone else, I have multiple biographies. Through my childhood and growing up in India, any pursuit that did not put food on the table was considered a hobby. So of course, the more urgent need to earn a living suppressed my deeper desire to write. I earned a doctoral degree, and spent several years as a Banker; but through it all, I felt trapped in a secure world that made me push the things I really wanted to do, for “later”. Moving to Canada was the best thing I could do, for this dream - I am now a writer.

This is my “later.”

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"Stories with the beauty, simplicity and strength of polished stones, dropped one by one into a bottomless pool. Jasmine D'Costa deals out innocence and cruelty with the same even hand. Hers is a fabulist new voice that deserves to be heard."

- Sylvia Fraser, author of ”A Rope in the Water: a pilgrimage to India"

The stories in the book are arresting and brilliant. Written simply, yet vividly, the author is able to generate a visual image for the reader creating a picture of the events unfolding in the story. What a great assemblage of gems worded by Jasmine D'Costa whose writings can best be described as avid and diverse. Certainly a must read short story collection!

Renu Mehta, Consulting Editor of the Indian Express and Divya Bhaskar (North American Edition)