Archive · 3 Oct 2026
Diksha Basu Explains Why She Wrote a Motherhood Memoir
Diksha Basu has written a book about being a mother.
She says writing about her own life feels more exposing than writing made-up stories.
She hopes her daughters will read it someday and understand why she made certain choices.
She says love, fear, and wanting to have fun helped guide her as a parent.
She also thinks about her own mother and the things she cannot remember about her.
Basu realises she may have blamed her mother without knowing the whole story.
The book started as a message to her daughters.
It became a message to her mother and to women more widely.
Diksha Basu says writing her first longform nonfiction work left her feeling exposed compared with writing fiction.
Her memoir, A Mother Is Born, began as a letter to her daughters and grew into a tribute to her mother and women more broadly.
Basu says she wrote partly to help her daughters understand that her parenting choices came from love, fear, and a pursuit of fun.
She reflects on how mothers may be blamed for difficulties children face later in life.
Basu also recognises that she has blamed her own mother without knowing much about what her mother was like at the same age.
- Who
- Diksha Basu, author of A Mother Is Born.
- What
- Basu explains why she wrote a motherhood memoir and what it means to her.
- When
- As she prepares to publish the book; no publication date is stated.
- Where
- Not stated.
- Why
- She hopes to help her daughters understand her choices as a mother and reflect on the bonds between mothers and daughters.
- Author
- Diksha Basu
- Memoir
- A Mother Is Born
- Form
- Basu describes it as her first longform nonfiction work.
- Daughters' ages
- Eight and nine at the time of writing.
- Reasons for parenting choices
- Basu names love, fear, and a pursuit of fun.
- Dedication's evolution
- The book began as a love letter to her daughters, then became one to her mother and to women.